- The
Scyldings (OE Scyldingas) or Skjǫldungs (ON Skjǫldungar), both
meaning "descendants of
Scyld/Skjǫldr", were,
according to legends, a clan or dynasty...
-
sometimes Anglicized as
Skjold or Skiold,
Latinized as Skioldus; Old
English Scyld, Proto-Germanic *Skelduz ‘shield’) was
among the
first legendary Danish...
-
misunderstanding of
Scyld Scefing as
Scyld the
Scefing instead of
Scyld of the
Sheaf led to the boat
story being transferred to
Scyld's supposed father Sceaf...
-
Anthony Scyld Ivens Berry,
known as
Scyld Berry (pronounced Shild, born 28
April 1954) is an
English journalist and
cricket correspondent of the Daily...
- John Buchan, and a
literary crux in
Beowulf in the
shape of the
character Scyld Scefing. He
arrives in the
world as a baby in a boat
filled with gifts,...
- were
extended in the age of Alfred,
where Beowa is
inserted as the son of
Scyld and the
grandson of Sceafa, in
lineages carried back to Adam. Connections...
- Hroðgar, Halga, Hroðulf,
Eadgils and Ohthere), but also
clans (e.g.,
Scyldings,
Scylfings and Wulfings) and
certain events (e.g., the
battle between...
-
Scyld Scefing contains a
cryptic mention of þā ("those") who have sent
Scyld as a baby in a boat,
presumably from
across the sea, and to whom
Scyld's...
- poem
Beowulf and from
appearances in some
genealogies as the
father of
Scyld. He may be the same as one of the
personages named Hermóðr in Old Norse...
- Dane") was a late 5th and
early 6th
century legendary Danish king of the
Scylding (Skjöldung) lineage, the son of king
named Fróði in many accounts, noted...
