Eilífr kúlnasveinn

Who is Eilífr kúlnasveinn?

Eilífr kúlnasveinn is an Icelandic skald who lived in the 12th or 13th century.

Nothing is known of his life, but he may have been a clergyman.

Five fragments of his work have come down to us. One stanza is preserved in the Fourth Grammatical Treatise. Three half-stanzas and a couplet are quoted in Snorri Sturluson's Skáldskaparmál and are generally considered to belong to a poem addressed to Christ, for they appear among the kennings for Christ.