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▪ I. scop Hist.|ʃɒp, skɒp|
Also (erroneously) scóp or scôp.
[OE. scop, sceop = OHG. scoph, scof masc., cogn. w. OHG. scoph (? neut.) poetry, fiction (‘commentum’), sport, jest, derision (‘ludibrium’), ON. skop railing, mocking: see scoff n.1]
An Old English poet or minstrel.
Beowulf 496 Scop hwilum sang hador on Heorote. c888K. ælfred Boeth. xli. §1 Omerus se goda sceop. c1205Lay. 22705 Scopes þer sungen of Arðure þan kingen.
1774R. Henry Hist. Gt. Brit. II. 437 Whether this similarity was owing to the Welsh bards having imitated the Saxon scops and Danish scalds,..it is not easy to determine. 1826J. J. Conybeare in W. D. Conybeare Illustrations of Anglo-Saxon Poetry 245 The following lines [from The Exile's Complaint] may therefore be considered as an unique specimen of an original attempt of this kind [sc. elegiac] by an Anglo-Saxon Scop. 1839T. Wright Ess. Lit. & Learning under Anglo-Saxons 1 The heroic song in which the scóp or poet told the venerable traditions of the foreworld to the chieftains assembled on the ‘mead-bench’. 1848Lytton Harold vi. i, I have heard scops and harpers sing [etc.]. 1860G. Stephens King Waldere's Lay 27 The less remarkable Hero names more or less connected with this Legend which may be found in Beowulf, the Scóp's Song, the Traveler's Lay, the Codex Dipl. and elsewhere. 1887Morley Introd. to A. Cunningham's Tradit. Tales 8 The recitations of the Scóp and gleeman. 1892Brooke Early Eng. Lit. I. 12 The Scôp and the gleeman were professional persons. 1893Trans. Philol. Soc. 1891–4 379 To compose with such a Prosody would imply at once the greatest crudity and the greatest subtlety in the ancient ‘scop’. 1898T. Arnold Notes on Beowulf ii. 16 Hroðgar..gives rich gifts to Beowulf, and his scóp, or poet, recites the lay of Hnæf and Hengest, and their great fight in Friesland. 1903L. F. Anderson Anglo-Saxon Scop 5 The poem itself is an aggregation of several interesting specimens of the scop's art. 1928W. W. Lawrence Beowulf & Epic Trad. 281 What, in a Christian era, were the court-poets, the scops, to do, except to fall in with the new ways? 1948K. Malone in English Studies XXIX. 164 The scops kept the old ideals strong by singing the heroes of the past. 1968E. B. Irving Reading of Beowulf iv. 169 The story of Finn, which Hrothgar's scop tells at the Great Banquet.
▪ II. scop
obs. f. scalp n.1; obs. pa. tense of shape. |