scop

[ skop ]

noun
  1. an Old English bard or poet.

Origin of scop

1
before 900; learned borrowing (19th century) of Old English scop; cognate with Old Norse skop mocking, Old High German skof derision

Words Nearby scop

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How to use scop in a sentence

  • The scop invented and the glee-man recited heroic legends and other tales to our Anglo-Saxon forefathers.

  • The "scop" or Geeman's song, and others, exhibit similar instances of this confusion of personages and dates.

  • No; there was the way Wyman had responded perfectly under scop.

    The Syndic | C.M. Kornbluth
  • The reply is that the Old English scop may not have regarded it as a place-name.

    Beowulf | R. W. Chambers
  • In "Deor" we have another picture of the Saxon scop, or minstrel, not in glad wandering, but in manly sorrow.

    English Literature | William J. Long

British Dictionary definitions for scop

scop

/ (skɒp) /


noun
  1. (in Anglo-Saxon England) a bard or minstrel

Origin of scop

1
Old English: related to Old Norse skop, skaup, Old High German scof, scopf poem

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