ÃÂlfr Uggason (Modern Icelandic: ) was an Icelandic skald who lived in the last part of the tenth century.
The Laxdæla saga tells how he composed his Húsdrápa for a wedding. Geirmundr married ÃÂurÃÂðr, whose father, ÃÂláfr pái ("peacock") Höskuldsson, had a magnificent hall built in his farm in Hjarðarholt (Iceland), with paintings representing legends on the walls and ceiling:
Three myths are described in the twelve stanzas and half-stanzas of ÃÂlfr's Húsdrápa: Baldr's funeral, Thor fishing for Jörmungandr, the Midgard serpent, and Heimdall's fight with Loki for the BrÃÂsingamen.
Apart from this episode, little is known about ÃÂlfr. Landnámabók gives the name and the lineage of his wife, Járngerðr. He also appears twice in the Brennu-Njáls saga. In chapter 60, on the occasion of a suit (which he loses), he is challenged to a duel by Gunnar of HlÃÂðarendi. In chapter 102, the skald ÃÂorvaldr veili, who has gathered a troop to slay ÃÂangbrandr (a missionary sent to Iceland by ÃÂláfr Tryggvason) and his companion Guðleifr Arason, asks him to kill the priest, but ÃÂlfr refuses to be involved. He then composes the lausavÃÂsa that is, along with Húsdrápa, all that survives of his work.