sceadu

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The modern _sh_ in English when derived from Anglo-Saxon is almost invariably _sc_ softened, or when derived from Danish or Norse _sh_, as, for instance, in the words _sceadu_ shade, _sceaft_ shaft, _sceacan_ shake, _sceal_ shall, _scamu_ shame,

Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 Arthur Acheson 1897
Heorotes hrōf, 403; siððan ǣfen-lēoht under heofenes hādor be-holen weorðeð, 414; under sceadu bregdan, 708; flēon under fen-hleoðu, 821; hond ālegde ... under gēapne hrōf, 837; tēon in under eoderas, 1038; so, 1361,

Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879
Þæt wæs yldum cūð, þæt hīe ne mōste, þā metod nolde, se syn-scaða under sceadu bregdan; ac hē wæccende wrāðum on andan

Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879
Heorotes hrôf, 403; siððan æfen-leóht under heofenes hâdor be-holen weorðeð, 414; under sceadu bregdan, 708; fleón under fen-hleoðu, 821; hond âlegde ... under geápne hrôf, 837; teón in under eoderas, 1038; so, 1361,

Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879
Þät wäs yldum cûð, þät hie ne môste, þâ metod nolde, se syn-scaða under sceadu bregdan; ac he wäccende wrâðum on andan

Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879
Cf. 704, where sceadu-genga (the _night-ganger_ of _Leechdoms_, ii.

Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879
Cf. 704, where sceadu-genga (the _night-ganger_ of _Leechdoms_, ii.

Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879