- The
Scyldings (OE Scyldingas) or Skjǫldungs (ON Skjǫldungar), both
meaning "descendants of
Scyld/Skjǫldr", were,
according to legends, a clan or dynasty...
-
instead to the
Danish hero
Scyld (Old
Norse Skjǫldr), the
ancestor of the
legendary Danish royal lineage known as the
Scyldings (Old
Norse Skjǫldungar)....
-
Anthony Scyld Ivens Berry,
known as
Scyld Berry (pronounced Shild, born 28
April 1954) is an
English journalist and
cricket correspondent of the Daily...
- his folk protect, the ****d and the stronghold, heroes' land, home of
Scyldings (Denmark). It
appears that
Heremod was
banished by his
subjects and fled...
-
sometimes Anglicized as
Skjold or Skiold,
Latinized as Skioldus; Old
English Scyld, Proto-Germanic *Skelduz ‘shield’) was
among the
first legendary Danish...
- Hroðgar, Halga, Hroðulf,
Eadgils and Ohthere), but also
clans (e.g.,
Scyldings,
Scylfings and Wulfings) and
certain events (e.g., the
battle between...
- 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...
- (Höddu)
daughter of Svaða Jótun that may be seen as
descending from the
Scyldings, from the
Kings of Lejre, the
stronghold of the
descendants of Dan in...
- 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,...
- by Gefjun.
Gefjun is
queen of King Skjöldr,
eponymous ancestor of the
Scyldings,
related to the
etymological debate.
Zealand is the most
populous Danish...
