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.

First the players pitch from the Hob to the Scop, and the one who gets nearest goes first.

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