Who is Scyld? Where is he from and where does he go? What does he do?

Question

My problem is the version of Beowulf I read did not begin with a character named Scyld. There was actually no character by this name. At the beginning of the story I read there was a character by the name of Shield. Is this the same person as scyld or is there another version i should read?

Answer 1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scyld

This should help.

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