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Sceaf in the boat, illustration from Fredrik Sander's 1893 edition of the Poetic Edda
Sceafa (Old English: Scēafa[ˈʃæːɑvɑ], also Scēaf, Scēf) was an ancient Lombardic king in English legend. According to his story, Sceafa appeared mysteriously as a child, coming out of the sea in an empty skiff. The name also appears in the corrupt forms Seskef, Stefius, Strephius, and Stresaeus.[1] Though the name has historically been modernized Shava (and Latinized Scefius), J.R.R. Tolkien used the correctly constructed modern English spelling Sheave.
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Sceafa (Old English: Scēafa [ˈʃæːɑvɑ], also Scēaf, Scēf) was an ancient Lombardic king in English legend. According to his story, Sceafa appeared mysteriously...
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is spelled scēabas in an early text, but later (and more commonly) as scēafas. c c /k/ The /tʃ/ pronunciation is sometimes written with a diacritic by...
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Malmesbury's 12th century Chronicle tells the story of the related figure Sceafa as a sleeping child in a boat without oars with a sheaf of corn at his head...
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and in specifically crediting William of Malmesbury for its treatment of Sceafa. The full chronicle has not been published. Benjamin Thorpe published a...
only one of which remains as a place of worship. The village name means "Sceafa's farmstead". Gresty means "badger path" or "wolf path". The village was...
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