Scyld Scyldinga: Intercultural Innovation at the Interface of West and North Germanic.
While many agree that Scyld in Beowulf was back-formed from Scyldingas, the context in which this occurred is rarely discussed. It seems frequently assumed that Scyld was created in Denmark and exported to England along with the name Scyldingas. However, the way that names and terms corresponding to...
| Publicado en: | Neophilologus Vol. 100; no. 3; pp. 461 - 477 |
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