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"the poems of the guslars consist of a juxtaposition of cliches relatively few in number and with which it suffices merely to be conversant ... A fine guslar is one who handles these cliches as we play with cards, who orders them differently according to the use he wishes to make of them".

See also

*Oral tradition
*Oral poetry
*Oral-formulaic theory in Anglo-Saxon poetry

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