Poets in medieval Iceland even treated Christian themes using the traditional repertoire of kennings complete with allusions to heathen myths and aristocratic epithets for saints: Þrúðr falda “ goddess of headdresses ” = “ Saint Catherine ” ( Kálfr Hallsson: Kátrínardrápa 4 ).

Early in his career he composed in the tradition of the Poets of the Princes but he was among the first to sing the praises of the nobles and others using the cywydd meter.