Ragnarsdrápa

[3] It is attributed to the oldest known skald, Bragi Boddason, who lived in the 9th century, and was composed for the Swedish king Björn at Haugi.

The images included: The extant fragments of Ragnarsdrápa are preserved in Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda.

[5] The episodes of Hamdir and Sorli and Heðinn and Hǫgni are explicitly ascribed to Ragnarsdrápa while the other parts are inferred by scholars to belong to the same poem, describing the images on the four quarters of the shield, in four stanzas each with, presumably, a lost refrain.

[5] The poem is often compared with Húsdrápa and Haustlöng, which also describe artworks depicting mythological scenes.

Like Haustlöng, it uses archaic and complex kennings in a manner that strains the syntax.

One of the decorations on Ragnarr's shield probably showed Thor's fishing trip. This illustration of the scene is from an 18th-century Icelandic manuscript.