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There was music and laughter, lays were sung:
the veteran of the Scyldings, versed in the sagas,
would himself fetch back far-off times to us;
the daring-in-battle would address the harp,
the joy-wood, delighting;...
Beowulf, trans. by M. Alexander, Penguin Classics, Great Britain, 1973, p. 117.
PLACE: Denmark.
TIME: 5th - 6th century.
CIRCUMSTANCE: Retelling of a celebration banquet.
There were heaps of hoard-things in this hall underground
which once in gone days gleamed and rang;
the thesaurus of a race rusting derelict.
Beowulf, trans. by M. Alexander, Penguin Classics, Great Britain, 1973, p.121.
PLACE: Denmark.
TIME: 5th - 6th century.
CIRCUMSTANCE: The richness of the objects is described through their sight and sound.
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