- Skjǫldr
appears in the
prologue of Beowulf,
where he is
referred to as
Scyld Scefing,
implying he is a
descendant or son of a Scef (‘Sheaf’,
usually identified...
- of the Angles,
reigning from Schleswig. His
descendants became known as
Scefings, or more
usually Scyldings (after Sceldwea).
Snorri Sturluson adopted this...
-
Shield element has intruded.
Perhaps a
misunderstanding of
Scyld Scefing as
Scyld the
Scefing instead of
Scyld of the
Sheaf led to the boat
story being transferred...
- Old
English Modern English (as
translated by
Seamus Heaney) Oft
Scyld Scéfing – sceaþena þréatum
monegum maégþum –
meodosetla oftéah•
egsode Eorle – syððan...
- (fortitude/courage/zeal)
freme (promote). Oft
Scyld Scēfing sceaþena þrēatum, Oft did
Scyld Scefing of
scather threats (troops), 5
monegum mǣġþum, meodosetla...
- long sped, we have heard, and what
honor the
athelings won! Oft
Scyld the
Scefing from
squadroned foes, from many a tribe, the mead-bench tore,
awing the...
-
begins and ends with funerals: at the
beginning of the poem for
Scyld Scefing and at the end for Beowulf. The poem is
tightly structured. E. Carrigan...
-
killed in the wilderness. His boat-funeral, too, has been
likened to
Scyld Scefing's ship-burial in Beowulf.
Boromir appears in
animated and live-action films...
- traps, the echo of "railroad". She
admires Tolkien's p****ion for
Scyld Scefing, who
became King
Sheave in Tolkien's The Lost Road. Like the sole Beowulf...
-
beginning of the poem,
there is a
character called Beowulf, the son of
Scyld Scefing, but this
character is not the
Beowulf who is the
protagonist of the poem...
