Early Anglo-Saxon stories of immortal humans took the
             form of epic poems to catch the eye of a reader or the ear
             of a listener by using, "grave and stately language."(8)
             Also the scops would be sure to incorporate a larger than
             life, immortal human called an epic hero. These epic heroes
             would escape death on many occasions and perform outrageous
             acts of strength and agility. Not only would they escape
             death and show acts of strength but they would also save
             people from the vengeance of monsters. The story form, word
             choice, and description of an immortal human together make
             The word choice of the many scops, who wondered around
             telling these stories, was very important so that the
             listeners would be more excited about the story. "The water
             was bloody, steaming and boiling in horrible pounding waves,
             heat sucked from his magic veins; but the swirling surf had
             covered his death, hidden deep in murky darkness his
             miserable end, as hell opened to receive him." (17) This
             sentence describes a monsters death so vividly that a
             flawless picture could be painted in the listeners mind to
             make it seem as if they themselves were there to whiteness
             the death. Another passage from "Beowulf", "smashing their
             shinning swords, their bloody, hammer-forged blades into
             their bore-headed helmets, slashing and stabbing with the
             sharpest of points," is very brilliant because of the
             discription of what is happening.(9) As you can see from
             these two passages word choice was used very carefully to
             bring out the best in every story but what was also very
             significant in an epic poem was the epic hero.
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