... Sceafa. With an intake of breath, Sceafa was alone once more. After a moment of thought he took a bone, and from the ground beneath he took a flint, and he scratched and he hollowed and he carved, and he took up another bone, and more ...
... Sceafa among the Langobards also invites discussion . The Langobards Sceafa ruled were a fierce Germanic tribe , described by the first - century Roman historian Velleius Paterculus as " gens etiam Germana feritate ferocior " [ " a race ...
... Sceafa and Sceldwa , if indeed these be not , in fact , one and the same person . Sceafa then , in the Angle legend , is the first inhabitant of Germany ; that is , Sceafa the god is the origin of everything in Anglia ( for Sceafa the ...
... Sceafa and Scyldwa , if indeed these be not in fact one and the same person : Sceafa then in the Angle legend is the first inhabitant of Germany , that is Sceafa the god , is the origin of every thing in Anglia , ( for Sceafa the god ...
... Sceafa and Scyldwa , if indeed these be not in fact one and the same person : Sceafa then in the Angle legend is the first inhabitant of Germany , that is Sceafa the god , is the origin of every thing in Anglia , ( for Sceafa the god ...
... Sceafa and Scyldwa , if indeed these be not in fact one and the same person : Sceafa then in the Angle legend is the first inhabitant of Germany , that is Sceafa the god , is the origin of every thing in Anglia , ( for. Sceafa. the. god.
... Sceafa and Scyldwa , if indeed these be not in fact one and the same person : Sceafa then in the Angle legend is the first inhabitant of Germany , that is Sceafa the god , is the origin of every thing in Anglia , ( for Sceafa the god ...
... Sceafa ' , instead of ' Scyld with the sheaf , thereby placing a new ancestor at the head of the genealogy , and that the story was then transferred from Scyld to his supposed father Sceafa . On the other hand , the appearance of Sceafa ...
... Sceafa. Sceafa [weold] Longbeardum. No name of any such Lombard king Sceaf is known to the historians1 ; but it is with this same king Sceaf3 that the pedigree of the West-Saxon kings began, until a monkish annalist, by the discovery ...
... Sceafa " occurs in Widsith as ruling over the Longobards . Of course we cannot be certain that this hero is identical with the Sceaf of the genealogy . Now there is no one in the long list of historic or semi - historic Longobard kings ...