LITERATURE QUESTIONS
EARLY BRITISH LITERATURE
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scop
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gleeman
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Detailed explanation-1: -Noun. scop (plural scops) (historical) A poet or minstrel in Anglo-Saxon England.
Detailed explanation-2: -Who Is the Scop? In medieval times, the scop was a poet who traveled around the countryside visiting mead halls. There, he’d regale the men and women with poems designed to chronicle their escapades and revel in their victories. The most important purpose of a scop was to entertain.
Detailed explanation-3: -The poets. Most Old English poets are anonymous; twelve are known by name from Medieval sources, but only four of those are known by their vernacular works to us today with any certainty: Caedmon, Bede, Alfred, and Cynewulf. Of these, only Caedmon, Bede, and Alfred have known biographies.
Detailed explanation-4: -A scop (/ʃɒp/ or /skɒp/) was a poet as represented in Old English poetry. The scop is the Old English counterpart of the Old Norse skald, with the important difference that “skald” was applied to historical persons, and scop is used, for the most part, to designate oral poets within Old English literature.