Þjóðólfr of Hvinir (
Thjodolf) was a
Norwegian
skald, active around the year 900.
He is
considered to have been the original author of Ynglingatal, a poem glorifying the
Norwegian petty king Ragnvald the Mountain-High, by
describing how he was descended from the Swedish
kings and
the Norse gods.
He is also credited with another
skaldic
poem,
Haustlöng.
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