"Sk\u00FAli \u00DE\u00F3rsteinsson"@en . . "Sk\u00FAli \u00DE\u00F3rsteinsson was an 11th-century Icelandic poet and warrior. He was the grandson of Egill Skallagr\u00EDmsson and a courtier of Jarl Eir\u00EDkr H\u00E1konarson. A short account of his life is given at the end of Egils saga: In Oddr Snorrason's Saga of Olaf Tryggvason Sk\u00FAli is mentioned as one of the last people to see Olaf Tryggvason, during the Battle of Svolder. Sk\u00FAli also has a small role to play in Gunnlaugs saga where he introduces Gunnlaugr ormstunga to Jarl Eir\u00EDkr. Sk\u00E1ldatal lists both of them as court poets of the jarl."@en . . . . "Sk\u00FAli \u00DE\u00F3rsteinsson was an 11th-century Icelandic poet and warrior. He was the grandson of Egill Skallagr\u00EDmsson and a courtier of Jarl Eir\u00EDkr H\u00E1konarson. A short account of his life is given at the end of Egils saga: Of Thorstein's sons, Thorgeir was the strongest but Skuli was the greatest. He lived at Borg after his father's day and spent a long time on Viking raids. He was at the stern of Earl Eirik's ship Iron-prow in the battle where King Olaf Tryggvason was killed. Skuli fought seven battles on his Viking raids and was considered to be outstandingly resolute and brave. He went to Iceland afterwards and farmed at Borg, where he lived until his old age, and many people are descended from him. In Oddr Snorrason's Saga of Olaf Tryggvason Sk\u00FAli is mentioned as one of the last people to see Olaf Tryggvason, during the Battle of Svolder. Sk\u00FAli \u00DEorsteinsson said that when he boarded the king's ship, \"the dead men lay so thick underfoot,\" he said, \"that it was hardly possible to go forward.\" Then he saw the king on the poopdeck, but he looked away and cleared the bodies from under the jarl's feet and his own. When he looked again, he did not see the king. Sk\u00FAli also has a small role to play in Gunnlaugs saga where he introduces Gunnlaugr ormstunga to Jarl Eir\u00EDkr. Sk\u00E1ldatal lists both of them as court poets of the jarl. A few fragments of Sk\u00FAli's poetry have come down to us. The kings' sagas quote a strophe by him where he recalls participating in the Battle of Svolder. Four other fragments which seem to be from the same poem are quoted in the Sk\u00E1ldskaparm\u00E1l section of Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda. The poem was composed as Sk\u00FAli was getting on in years and recalls his warlike youth. The final fragment quoted in Sk\u00E1ldskaparm\u00E1l is a lyrical description of a sunset, unique in the skaldic corpus."@en . . . . .