The Scyldings (OE Scyldingas) or Skjǫldungs (ON Skjǫldungar), both meaning "descendants of Scyld/Skjǫldr", were, according to legends, a clan or dynasty...
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Sceafa (section Scyld Scefing)
Beowulf calls Heremod a Scylding and calls his people were Scyldings, which should mean Heremod was a descendant of Scyld. But that may be anachonistic...
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Anthony Scyld Ivens Berry, known as Scyld Berry (pronounced Shild, born 28 April 1954) is an English journalist and cricket correspondent of the Daily...
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Beowa (redirect from Beowulf Scylding)
were extended in the age of Alfred, where Beowa is inserted as the son of Scyld and the grandson of Sceafa, in lineages carried back to Adam. Connections...
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Fridleif (Ynglinga saga) was a son of Fróði of the Skjöldung (Scylding) lineage. In that work he was the brother of Halfdan and the father of Áli the Strong...
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Sweden, Saxland and even parts of England. Early kings of the Rig and Scylding lines, mentioned by multiple sources Dan mikilláti, son of Danp, brother-in-law...
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Ylfing or Wulfing in Beowulf and Norse Sagas. Scylfing (Yngling) Skjöldung (Scylding) Völsung Sippe ^ "Ätt" i Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (första...
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Healfdene (redirect from Halfdan Scylding)
Dane") was a late 5th and early 6th century legendary Danish king of the Scylding (Skjöldung) lineage, the son of king named Fróði in many accounts, noted...
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Thy Mols Bjerge Wadden Sea Land of the Scylding Kongernes Nordsjælland There are six national parks in the Kingdom of Denmark; five in Denmark proper and...
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Old Straight Road (section Scyld Scefing)
John Buchan, and a literary crux in Beowulf in the shape of the character Scyld Scefing. He arrives in the world as a baby in a boat filled with gifts,...
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Norse tradition, his attempt to become king would cause the end of the Scylding clan. Herebeald – the son of the Geatish king Hreðel. Beowulf was his nephew...
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who rules the Hlaðeyjar, also appears in the sagas of the 6th century Scylding king Halfdan. She gives him twenty ships to help defeat his enemies. Hilda...
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Hroðgar, Halga, Hroðulf, Eadgils and Ohthere), but also clans (e.g., Scyldings, Scylfings and Wulfings) and certain events (e.g., the battle between...
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Hrothgar (category Scyldings)
chronicles. In both Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian tradition, Hrothgar is a Scylding, the son of Halfdan, the brother of Halga, and the uncle of Hrólfr Kraki...
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Scyld Scefing contains a cryptic mention of þā ("those") who have sent Scyld as a baby in a boat, presumably from across the sea, and to whom Scyld's...
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Norse: Halfdan; Swedish: Halfdan, Halvdan) – legendary Danish king of the Scylding dynasty; supposedly conquered Uppsala from Aun and ruled there as king...
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poem Beowulf and from appearances in some genealogies as the father of Scyld. He may be the same as one of the personages named Hermóðr in Old Norse...
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Scyld Scefing contains a cryptic mention of þā ("those") who have sent Scyld as a baby in a boat, presumably from across the sea, and to whom Scyld's...
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Oval to end the series with an average of 79.66. In his series summary, Scyld Berry praised Thorpe's attacking play for enlivening England who prior to...
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had adopted the triquetra from earlier Norse uses, viewing himself as a Scylding. His successors also used the symbol, and Harald in turn probably adopted...
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own mound-burial. Its picture of warrior life in the hall of the Danish Scylding clan, with formal mead-drinking, minstrel recitation to the lyre and the...
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by Gefjun. Gefjun is queen of King Skjöldr, eponymous ancestor of the Scyldings, related to the etymological debate. Zealand is the most populous Danish...
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debut at Lord's on 10 July 2024 and scored 70 in his first innings, when Scyld Berry said that he had "batted like an old master, not a debutant". Smith...
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Danorum. The second book of Saxo's Gesta Danorum, starting at Halfdan Scylding, through the fourth book, the reign of Dan II, is based on the genealogy...
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being the shekel. In the Old English poem Beowulf, and in Norse mythology, Scyld Scefing (the second name meaning "with a sheaf") and his son Beow ("Barley")...
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the young apprentice who replaces the Shaper upon his death. Unferth – a Scylding warrior who challenges but fails to defeat Grendel. Wealtheow – queen of...
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the Heaðobards. The latter are noted for fighting against the Danish Scylding Helgi, comparable to Höðbrodd's fight against Helgi. Bugge furthermore...
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tumulus burials were described in the Beowulf poem, through the funerals of Scyld Scefing and Beowulf respectively. It has been considered largely impossible...
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suggested that Lejre was the chief residence of the Skjöldung clan (called “Scylding” in the poem). The remains of a Viking hall complex was uncovered southwest...
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