scop

American  

[skop] / skɒp /

noun

1. an Old English bard or poet.

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scop British  

/ skɒp /

noun

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

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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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scop

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 Hall, Lesslie

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

From Beowulf An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn by Chambers, R. W.

In his early life Cynewulf was probably a wandering scop of the old pagan kind, delighting in wild nature, in adventure, in the clamor of fighting men.

From Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived by Long, William Joseph

What poem reveals the life of the scop or poet?

From English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English Speaking World by Long, William Joseph

When the warriors, after some victorious battle, were feasting at their long tables, the banquet was not complete without the songs of the scop.

From Halleck's New English Literature by Halleck, Reuben Post