Scopa vs Scop - What's the difference?
scopa | scop |
(historical) A poet or minstrel in Anglo-Saxon England.
* 1900', Reuben Post Halleck, ''History of English Literature'', quoted in '''1927 , Thomas Tapper, Percy Goetschius, ''Essentials in Music History , 2011, Facsimile Edition,
* 1991 , R. N. Sarkar, A Topical Survey of English Literature , India,
* 2004 , Richard Marsden, The Cambridge Old English Reader ,
* 2011 , Hugh Magennis, The Cambridge Introduction to Anglo-Saxon Literature , Cambridge University Press,
As nouns the difference between scopa and scop
is that scopa is a Neapolitan card game while scop is a poet or minstrel in Anglo-Saxon England.scop
English
(wikipedia scop)Noun
(en noun)page 42,
- The kings and nobles often attached to them a scop''''', or maker of verses.The banquet was not complete without the songs of the '''scop'''. While the warriors ate the flesh of boar and deer and warmed their blood with horns of foaming ale, the ' scop , standing where the blaze from a pile of logs disclosed to him the grizzly features of the men, sang his most stirring songs, often accompanying them with the music of a rude harp.
page 1,
- The poem is, therefore, entitled Widsith'' which means a great traveller. The scop''' was moving from place to place to find a Lord in his desolate mind here.The ''Lament of Deor'' tells a different story. It is the story of sorrow, clearly defined, the sorrow of a similar ' scop who may have been thrown out of favour and led into an eager search of a new master.
page 273,
- During the feast held in Heorot to celebrate Beowulf's mortal wounding of Grendel, the poet has King Hrothgar's scop perform a 'lay' whose theme of death and disaster is clearly meant to act as a sort of balance to the unbridled joy of the hall-people.
page 43,
- The beginning of the poem introduces a speech by Widsith (lines 1—4a), with an accompanying account of his life and travels as a scop :.
