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scopn.Etymology: Old English scop , sceop = Old High German scoph , scof (masculine), cognate with Old High German scoph (? neuter) poetry, fiction (‘commentum’), sport, jest, derision (‘ludibrium’), Old Norse skop railing, mocking: see scoff n.1 Historical. society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poet > poet by period > [noun] > bard c888 Ælfred tr. Boethius xli. §1 Omerus se goda sceop. OE 496 Scop hwilum sang hador on Heorote. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon (Calig.) (1978) l. 11330 Scopes þer sungen of Arðure þan kingen. 1774 R. Henry 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.1826 J. J. Conybeare in W. D. Conybeare 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.1839 T. Wright 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’.1848 E. Bulwer-Lytton II. vi. i. 75 I have heard scops and harpers sing [etc.].1860 G. Stephens 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.1887 H. Morley in A. Cunningham Introd. 8 The recitations of the Scóp and gleeman.1892 S. A. Brooke I. 12 The Scôp and the gleeman were professional persons.1893 379 To compose with such a Prosody would imply at once the greatest crudity and the greatest subtlety in the ancient ‘scop’.1898 T. Arnold 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.1903 L. F. Anderson 5 The poem itself is an aggregation of several interesting specimens of the scop's art.1928 W. W. Lawrence 281 What, in a Christian era, were the court-poets, the scops, to do, except to fall in with the new ways?1948 K. Malone in 29 164 The scops kept the old ideals strong by singing the heroes of the past.1968 E. B. Irving iv. 169 The story of Finn, which Hrothgar's scop tells at the Great Banquet. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.c888 |