ABSTRACT
Scyld and Scef is the first comprehensive study of these heroic figures of Germanic legend, featured in much of the literature of the Middle Ages, including Beowulf, The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and the Edda. The authors argue that this duo represent a way that medieval Germanic peoples defined themselves in their literature. Divided into two sections, this volume explores the specific cultures from which Scyld and Scef rose and the forty-one manuscripts in which they appear.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|87 pages
Commentary
chapter Chapter 2|15 pages
Scyld and Scef in Anglo-Saxon Poetry
chapter Chapter 3|11 pages
Scyld and Scef in English Genealogies of the Anglo-Saxon Period
chapter Chapter 4|12 pages
Scyld and Scef in English Records of the Twelfth through Fifteenth Centuries
chapter Chapter 7|7 pages
Conclusion
part II|69 pages
Texts and Translations