Heroic lay
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Heroic lay
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The heroic lay is a genre of Germanic epic poetry characteristic of the Migration Period and the Early Middle Ages. A lay is a short narrative poem of between 80 and 200 lines concerning a single heroic episode in the life of a warrior from Germanic legend. It is distinct from the heroic epic which combines a sequence of episodes into a longer narrative.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroic_lay
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2022-07-07T12:28:53Z
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