scop
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of scop
before 900; learned borrowing (19th century) of Old English scop; cognate with Old Norse skop mocking, Old High German skof derision
Example Sentences
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“What likest thou best to hear?” asked he, well pleased, for the scop delighted in his art.
From A Maid at King Alfred?s Court by Lucy Foster Madison
Whether the last was added by some monk who saw the allegorical possibilities of the first part, or whether some sea-loving Christian scop wrote both, is uncertain.
From English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English Speaking World by William Joseph Long
There was music and merriment mingling together Hrothgar’s scop recalls events in the reign of his lord’s father.
From Beowulf An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem by Lesslie Hall
But if we go back to a time when poems were committed to memory by a scop, skilled in the laws of O.E. metre, the matter is very different.
From Beowulf An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn by R. W. Chambers
In addition to the scop, who was more or less permanently attached to the royal court or hall of a noble, there was a craft of gleemen who roved from hall to hall.
From Halleck's New English Literature by Reuben Post Halleck
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