In case you're not familiar with the term, a "scald", or more properly, "skald", is an old word for a poet. It's borrowed from the Old Norse "skáldr".  In ancient times, throughout Germanic culture, the function of poets and formal poetry was purely reserved for the courts of earls and kings. Like all roles within a noble's court, it was predominantly masculine. However, there were instances of lady court poets or scalds, notably a 10th-century Norwegian girl called Jórunn skáldmær—Jórunn the poet-maiden, or as I put it playfully, the "scaldic maide".