scop

[ skop ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

scop

/ skɒp /

Origin of scop¹

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

Origin of scop¹

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

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 reply is that the Old English scop may not have regarded it as a place-name.

In "Deor" we have another picture of the Saxon scop, or minstrel, not in glad wandering, but in manly sorrow.

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