Poets
According to Skáldatal, Haakon had the following court poets:
- Eyvindr Finnsson
- Einarr skálaglamm
- Tindr Hallkelsson
- Skafti Þóroddsson
- Þórólfr munnr
- Eilífr Guðrúnarson
- Vigfúss Víga-Glúmsson
- Þorleifr jarlsskáld
- Hvannár-Kálfr
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“He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.”
—John Dryden (1631–1700)
“I knew a gentleman who was so good a manager of his time that he would not even lose that small portion of it which the calls of nature obliged him to pass in the necessary-house, but gradually went through all the Latin poets in those moments. He bought, for example, a common edition of Horace, of which he tore off gradually a couple of pages, read them first, and then sent them down as a sacrifice to Cloacina: this was so much time fairly gained.”
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“That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them. But it’s horribly lonely not to hear someone else talk sometimes.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)