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A scop was an Old English poet, the Anglo-Saxon counterpart of the Old Norse skald. Old English (also called Anglo-Saxon) is an early form of the English language that was spoken in parts of what is now England and southern Scotland between the mid-fifth century and the mid-twelfth century. ... The Anglo-Saxons refers collectively to the groups of Germanic tribes who achieved dominance in southern Britain from the mid-5th century, forming the basis for the modern English nation. ... Old Norse or Danish tongue is the Germanic language once spoken by the inhabitants of the Nordic countries (for instance during the Viking Age). ... The skald was a member of a group of courtly poets, whose poetry is associated with the courts of Scandinavian and Icelandic leaders during the Viking age, who composed and performed renditions of aspects of what we now characterise as Old Norse poetry. ...

There were differences. As far as we can tell from what has been preserved, the art of the scop was directed mostly towards epic poetry; the surviving verse in Old English consists of the epic Beowulf, religious verse in epic formats such as the Dream of the Rood, heroic lays of battle, and stern meditations on mortality and the transience of earthly glory. By contrast, the verse preserved from the skalds consists mostly of incidental verse contained in the sagas, often done up in the elaborate drottkvætt meter, and the ballad-like forms that form most of the corpus of the Elder Edda. Both, of course, wrote within the Germanic tradition of alliterative verse. The scop was a performer as well as a poet; he recited or sang his verses, usually accompanying himself on a harp or a similar stringed instrument. The epic is a broadly defined genre of poetry, and one of the major forms of narrative literature. ... The first page of Beowulf This article describes Beowulf, the epic poem. ... The Dream of the Rood is one of the earliest Christian poems in the corpus of Old English poetry and an intriguing example of the genre of dream poetry. ... Sir Galahad, a hero of Arthurian legend From the Greek cognate ηρως, in mythology and folklore, a hero (male) or heroine (female) is an eminent character who quintessentially embodies key traits valued by its originating culture. ... The Battle of Waterloo by William Sadler. ... The skald was a member of a group of courtly poets, whose poetry is associated with the courts of Scandinavian and Icelandic leaders during the Viking age, who composed and performed renditions of aspects of what we now characterise as Old Norse poetry. ... The Norse sagas or Viking sagas (Icelandic: Íslendingasögur), are stories about ancient Scandinavian and Germanic history, about early Viking voyages, about migration to Iceland, and of feuds between Icelandic families. ... A ballad is a story in a song, usually a narrative song or poem. ... The Poetic Edda or Elder Edda is a term applied to two things. ... The Old English epic poem Beowulf is written in alliterative verse. ... The harp is a chordophone which has its strings positioned perpendicular to the soundboard. ...

In the introduction to The Earliest English Poems, Michael Alexander claims that the word scop is related to modern English "shape". This assertion has been widely repeated, and if true would evoke the same notion of craftsmanship preserved in the metaphor of the Greek word poet itself. Unfortunately, there is no linguistic support for this derivation. The Oxford English Dictionary indicates that the word is cognate with Old High German scoph, scof, meaning poetry or jest, and Old Norse skop, meaning mocking or scolding. The word skald has also been preserved in modern English: it became "scold." For the 80s pop band, see Modern English (band). ... In language, a metaphor (from the Greek: metapherin) is a rhetorical trope defined as a direct comparison between two seemingly unrelated subjects. ... The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is a dictionary published by the Oxford University Press (OUP). ... Old High German is the earliest recorded form of the modern German language, and was spoken from the middle of the 9th to the end of the 11th century. ... Old Norse or Danish tongue is the Germanic language once spoken by the inhabitants of the Nordic countries (for instance during the Viking Age). ... Skaldic poetry (Icelandic: dróttkvæði, court poetry) is Old Norse poetry composed by known skalds, as opposed to the anonymous Eddaic poetry. ...

See also: Anglo-Saxon literature Opening pages to a 11th century Anglo-Saxon manuscript. ...

References

Alexander, Michael (1966). The Earliest English Poems, Penguin.