... high name for learning and literature; on both sides of their descent people inherited special poetic power. Some of older Eddaic fragments attest the great reach and deep overpowering strength of imagination possessed by their Norse ancestors; and they themselves had been quickened by a new leaven. During the first generations of the "land-taking" a great school of poetry ... — The Story of the Volsungs, (Volsunga Saga) - With Excerpts from the Poetic Edda • Anonymous
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