Sceadugenga is one of those wonderfully eerie Old English words that feels like it walked straight out of a cursed forest and is meant to haunt.

What Is The Etymology Of The Word?

Sceadugenga is an Old English word, and while Anglo-Saxon was spoken roughly from 450 CE to 1150 CE, we can narrow it down! 

The word sceadugenga is attested in Beowulf, which gives us the best reference point since the manuscript dates around 1000 CE, but the poem itself was likely composed earlier, in the 700 to 900 CE.

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