About Þórarinn Skeggjason
Lived 1038 – 1099 (aged 60–61). Þórarinn Skeggjason was an Icelandic poet.
Þórarinn Skeggjason (Old Norse: ; Modern Icelandic: ) was an 11th-century Icelandic skald. According to Skáldatal, he was a court poet of the Norwegian king Harald Hardrada. He composed a drápa on the king. Only one half-stanza of it has been preserved in the kings' sagas. It tells that Harald blinded the Byzantine emperor Constantine Monomachos. This episode is also mentioned by Þjóðólfr Arnórsson in his Sexstefja.
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Icelandic poet
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Þórarinn Skeggjason was born in 1038.
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Þórarinn Skeggjason died in 1099.
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Þórarinn Skeggjason was a poet.
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Þórarinn Skeggjason was Icelandic.
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