omance by C. Nodier (1818), a leader of
bandits, in the spirit of Lord Byron's _Corsair_ and _Lara_.

=Scadder= (_General_), agent in the office of the "Eden Settlement." His
peculiarity consisted in the two distinct expressions of his profile,
for "one side seemed to be listening to what the other side was
doing."--C. Dickens, _Martin Chuzzlewit_ (1844).

=Scalds=, court poets and chroniclers of the ancient Scandinavians. They
resided at court, were attached to the royal suite, and attended the
king in all his wars. They also acted as ambassadors between hostile
tribes, and their persons were held sacred. These bards celebrated in
song the gods, the kings of Norway, and national heroes. Their lays or
_vyses_ were compiled in the eleventh century by Saemund Sigfusson, a
priest and scald of Iceland, and the compilation is called the _Elder_
or _Rythmical Edda_.

=Scallop-Shell= (_The_). Every one knows that St. James's pilgrims are
distinguished by scallop-shells, but it is a blunder to suppose that
other pilgrims are privileged to wear them. Three of the popes have, by
their bulls, distinctly confirmed this right to the Compostella pilgrim
alone: viz., Pope Alexander III., Pope Gregory IX. and Pope Clement V.

Now, the escallop or scallop, is a shell-fish, like an oyster or large
cockle; but Gwillim tells us what ignorant zo[:o]logists have omitted to
mention, that the bivalve is "engendered solely of dew and air. It has
no blood at all; yet no food that man eats turns so soon into life-blood
as the scallop."--_Display of Heraldy_, 171.

_Scallop-shells used by Pilgrims._ The reason why the scallop-shell is
used by pilgrims is not generally known. The legend is this: When the
marble ship which bore the headless body of St. James approached Bouzas,
in Portugal, it happened to be the wedding day of the chief magnate of
the village; and while the bridal party was at sport, the horse of the
bridegroom became unmanageable, and plunged into the sea. The ship
passed over the horse and its rider, and pursued its onward course,
when, to the amazement of all, the horse and its rider emerged from the
water uninjured, and the cloak of the rider was thickly covered with
scallop-shells. All were dumbfounded, and knew not what to make of these
marvels, but a voice from heaven exclaimed, "It is the will of God that
all who henceforth make their vows to St. James, and go on pilgrimage,
shall take with them scallop-shells; and