Scyld and Scef

<em>Scyld and Scef</em> is the first comprehensive study of these heroic figures of Germanic legend featured in much of the literature of the Middle Ages including <em>Beowulf</em> <em>The</em> <em>Anglo-Saxon Chronicle</em> and the <em>Edda</em>. The authors argue that this duo represent a way that medieval Germanic peoples defined themselves in their literature. Divided into two sections this volume explores the specific cultures from which Scyld and Scef rose and the forty-one manuscripts in which they appear.