The Germanic Invasions
for a stop.
Parallelism the repetition of the same idea in a different form.
Many nouns and names substituted with metaphors and kennings.
sea: salt-streams, sail-road, wave-deeps
warriors: the famous-for-prowess, heroes-in-battle, the cased-in-
helmets
king: ring-prince, folk-leader, folk-chief
Anglo-Saxon verse
Composed by bards (scops)
Relied on a stock of ready-made formulaic expressions
Produced an unhesitating flow of well-formed alliterative verses.
D´a com of more / under misthleod´um
Grendel gongan / Godes yrre bär
annaabi.ee 
