jun 10, 776 - Poetry: entertainment came from scops ). The more exicitng of these poems are the epic poems. Since the poems had to be memorized, most poems were alliterative an with a regular rythm. The best-known and longest surviving work from this period is the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf.
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jun 10, 776
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~ 1250 years ago