Scyld

""Beowulf son of Beowulf,""hero of the Anglo-Saxon epic, was called Scyld by the Danes, who said he came from the waters in a basket like Romulus and Remus, foster-sons of the She-Wolf.

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""Beowulf son of Beowulf,""hero of the Anglo-Saxon epic, was called Scyld by the Danes, who said he came from the waters in a basket like Romulus and Remus, foster-sons of the She-Wolf.

Mount Lykaion Back in the News Jan 2008

"Scyld", but Ethelweard, William of Malmesbury, and others adhered to

Myths of Babylonia and Assyria Donald Alexander Mackenzie 1904

Wisden's editor, Scyld Berry, in his last act before stepping down from the role, was torn between not wishing to stigmatise Amir ahead of a criminal trial, hence his reluctance to name him, and the wish to pass moral judgment on a tainted cricketer.

Mohammad Amir's suspension makes Wisden cut its famous five to four 2011

Often Scyld Scefing seized mead-benches from enemy troops, from many a clan; he terrified warriors, even though first he was found

Dissertation Fragments II: Horizons of History Mary Kate Hurley 2007

Scyld, we are told, wæs god cyning (was a good king).

Dissertation Fragments II: Horizons of History Mary Kate Hurley 2007

Scyld Scefing unites those who lie as ymbsittendra (the sitters-about, as it were) or bordering nations, all of whom unite to gomban gyldan – to pay him tribute.

Dissertation Fragments II: Horizons of History Mary Kate Hurley 2007

Oft Scyld Scefing sceaþena þreatum, monegum mægþum, meodosetla ofteah, egsode eorlas.

Dissertation Fragments II: Horizons of History Mary Kate Hurley 2007

As these opening lines of Beowulf suggest, the “time” of the poem embraces a variety of temporalities – from the time of its main actions, to the distant past of Scyld, to the eternal time of Christian cosmology.

Dissertation Fragments II: Horizons of History Mary Kate Hurley 2007

Scyld Scefing himself calls the third group into being: because he egsode eorlas, terrified the earls, we now have a collectivity best described as “those who are terrified by Scyld.”

Dissertation Fragments II: Horizons of History Mary Kate Hurley 2007