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The Style of the Poems

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Rhetorical art of the alliterative verse 133
English and Norse 134
Different besetting temptations in England and the North 136
English tameness; Norse emphasis and false wit (the Scaldic poetry) 137
Narrative poetry undeveloped in the North; unable to compete with the lyrical forms 137
Lyrical element in Norse narrative 138
Volospá, the greatest of all the Northern poems 139
False heroics; Krákumál (Death-Song of Ragnar Lodbrok) 140
A fresh start, in prose, with no rhetorical encumbrances 141
Epic and Romance

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