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Skjöldr (Latinized as Skioldus, sometimes Anglicized as Skjold or Skiold) was among the first legendary Danish kings. He is mentioned in the ''Prose Edda'', in ''Ynglinga saga'', in ''Chronicon Lethrense'', in Sven Aggesen's history, in Arngrímur Jónsson's Latin abstract of the lost ''Skjöldunga saga'' and in Saxo Grammaticus' ''Gesta Danorum''. Under the name Scyld he also appears in the Old English poem ''Beowulf''. The various accounts have little in common. In the ''Skjöldunga saga'' and the ''Ynglinga saga'', Odin came from Asia and conquered Northern Europe. He gave Sweden to his son Yngvi and Denmark to his son Skjöldr. Since then the kings of Sweden were called Ynglings and those of Denmark Skjöldungs. Scyld Scefing is the legendary ancestor of the Danish royal lineage known as the Scyldings. He is the counterpart of the ''Skioldus'' or ''Skjöldr'' of Danish and Icelandic sources. He appears in the opening lines of ''Beowulf'', where he is referred to as ''Scyld Scefing'', indicating he is a descendant of Sceafa, Scyld son of Scef, or Scyld of the Sheaf. The ''Beowulf'' poet places him in a boat which is seen in other stories about Scef as a child in a boat. After relating in general terms the glories of Scyld's reign, the poet describes Scyld's funeral, his body was laid in a ship surrounded by treasures: They decked his body no less bountifully William of Malmesbury's 12th century ''Chronicle'' tells the story of Sceafa as a sleeping child in a boat without oars with a sheaf of corn at his head.〔Owen-Crocker, Gale R., ''The Four Funerals in "Beowulf"''. Manchester University Press: Manchester, 2000.〕 Axel Olrik in 1910 suggested a parallel "barley-figure" in Finnish Peko, in turn connected by Fulk (1989) with Eddaic Bergelmir.〔Fulk, R. D. "An Eddic Analogue to the Scyld Scefing Story", ''The Review of English Studies'' (1989).〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Skjöldr」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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