Hákonardrápa is the name of several skaldic poems. Hákon may refer to:

King Hákon the Good

Haakon I of Norway

Haakon I , , given the byname the Good, was the third king of Norway and the youngest son of Harald Fairhair and Thora Mosterstang.-Early life:...

Guthormr sindri

Guthormr sindri

Guthormr Sindri is a 10th century Norwegian skald. He was a court-poet of king Haraldr Fairhair and his sons, Hálfdan the Black and Hákon the Good , for whom he composed the Hákonardrápa....

's Hákonardrápa was composed in the 10th century in the honour of the king of Norway Hákon the Good.

Jarl

Earl

An earl is a member of the nobility. The title is Anglo-Saxon, akin to the Scandinavian form jarl, and meant "chieftain", particularly a chieftain set to rule a territory in a king's stead. In Scandinavia, it became obsolete in the Middle Ages and was replaced with duke...

 Hákon Sigurðarson

Other drápur, written later in the 10th century, praise the Norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 jarl Hákon Sigurðarson. They were composed by:

Þórleifr jarlsskáld Rauðfeldarson

Þorleifr jarlsskáld

Þorleifr Rauðfeldarson or Þorleifr jarlsskáld was an Icelandic skald. He was one of the court poets of Hákon Sigurðarson, though only a couple of his verses on the ruler have come down to us. The following is quoted in Heimskringla....

Only one stanza and a few verses of Þórleifr's work on Hákon survived. The stanza (preserved in Snorri Sturluson

Snorri Sturluson

Snorri Sturluson was an Icelandic historian, poet, and politician. He was twice elected lawspeaker at the Icelandic parliament, the Althing...

's Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar

Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar

Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar or the Saga of Óláfr Tryggvason can refer to several different kings' sagas.* Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar by Oddr Snorrason* Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar by Gunnlaugr Leifsson...

) especially praises the jarl for having sent nine princes to Odin

Odin

Odin is a major god in Norse mythology and the ruler of Asgard. Homologous with the Anglo-Saxon "Wōden" and the Old High German "Wotan", the name is descended from Proto-Germanic "*Wodanaz" or "*Wōđanaz"....

 (i.e. killed).

King Hákon Hákonarson

The latest Hákonardrápur refer to the king of Norway Hákon Hákonarson (Hákon the Old). They were composed in the 13th century by:

External links

• The eight Hákonardrápur in the original language