Best Scop Poems

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did the scop citate
     the feather
 twixt hiz dentes
        hern
   'pon    'part
         her
    unhanded
 causin   babble...

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Categories: scop, beautiful, character, write,
Form: Free verse

elucidate'n scop

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                   imagin
         from boulbous budz
              ...

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Categories: scop, allusion, extended metaphor, natural
Form: Prose Poetry

Widsith the Far-Traveler, Part I, translation of the ancient Anglo-Saxon poem

Widsith was a traveling minstrel who "sang for his supper" but may have been prone to exaggeration...

Widsith, the Far-Traveler, Part I of III
anonymous Old English/Anglo-Saxon poem, circa 680-950 AD
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Widsith the wide-wanderer began to speak,
unlocked his word-hoard, manifested his memories,
he who...

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Categories: scop, adventure, music, poetry, poets,
Form: Free verse

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