318, "The SCOP or Scald's Tale."
"Anglo-Saxon Literature"
John Earle
But if we go back to a time when poems were committed to memory by a SCOP, skilled in the laws of O.E. metre, the matter is very different.
"Beowulf An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn"
R. W. Chambers
The reply is that the Old English SCOP may not have regarded it as a place-name.
"Beowulf An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn"
R. W. Chambers