From: Torsten
Message: 67524
Date: 2011-05-10
> <<Tolkien treated Sceaf in a poem "King Sheave">>Yes it is. And connected to jurisdiction, and to leading flocks. That's why the idea that early Germanic law was influenced by (based on?) Jewish law is interesting.
>
> A... chef avant la lettre. :o) (But anyway: strange coincidences
> over millennia - shofet/suffet, shupan/choban/zhoopan, scef,
> chef, Schöffe - each of them being some kind of "chief".)