FIRST KING OF DENMARK SKJOLD FULL

Anatoly Liberman gives a full survey of the literature and suggests that the word meant 'shining.' In Beowulf 33, Scyld's ship is called is Д«sig, literally, 'icy.' The meaning of this epithet has been discussed many times. He grew to be great, And was girt with power till the border-tribes all obeyed his rule, And sea-folk hardy that sit by the whale-path Gave him tribute, a good king was he.' ДЄfter relating in general terms the glories of Scyld's reign, the poet describes Scyld's funeral, his body was laid in a ship surrounded by treasures:ДЄnd launched him alone out over the waves. He lives to be feared, the first has a waif, Puny and frail he was found on the shore. 'Scyld the Sheaf-Child from scourging foemen, From raiders a-many their mead-halls wrested. The Beowulf poet places him in a boat which is seen in other stories about Scef as a child in a boat. He appears in the opening lines of Beowulf, where he is referred to as Scyld Scefing, implying he is a descendant of Sceafa, Scyld son of Scef, or Scyld of the Sheaf. He is the counterpart of the Skioldus or SkjГ¶ldr of Danish and Icelandic sources.

Scyld Scefing is the legendary ancestor of the Danish royal lineage known as the Scyldings. Since then the kings of Sweden were called Ynglings and those of Denmark SkjГ¶ldungs. He gave Sweden to his son Yngvi and Denmark to his son SkjГ¶ldr. In the SkjГ¶ldunga saga and the Ynglinga saga, Г“Г°inn came from Asia (Scythia) and conquered Northern Europe. The various accounts have little in common. Under the name Scyld he also appears in the Old English poem Beowulf. He is mentioned in the Prose Edda, in Ynglinga saga, in Chronicon Lethrense, in Sven Aggesen's history, in ArngrГmur JГіnsson's Latin abstract of the lost SkjГ¶ldunga saga and in Saxo Grammaticus' Gesta Danorum. SkjЗ«ldr (Latinized as Skioldus, sometimes anglicized as Skjold, Skjoldr or Skiold) was among the first legendary Danish kings.

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