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Borg Svemann,
Woodworker
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The epic poems of Norse mythology frequently refer to UII, the god of skiing and to Skade the goddess of skiing and hunting.
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Athena Mondale,
Spiritual Consultant
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One of the earliest English epic poems Gawain and The Green Knight may refer to yet another manifestation of the Green Man as the God that dies and is reborn.
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Pete Trengle,
Bass Player
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An Epic Trio of Poems The struggles of the working class as described around the turn of the 20th century eerily echo the intensity of the hi-tech workplace of today.
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Abu Kashir,
Gas Station Attendant
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Kakawin are epic poems written in Indian-derived metres, which relate the adventures of the Indian gods and heroes of the Sanskrit epics, the Mahabharata and Ramayana.
Her poems are postcards which turn out to be epics.
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Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder
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These poems showed that a comprehensive epic poetry corpus of anthological value exists in Croatia, which differs in the aesthetic and poetic regard from the image of unified Southern Slavic epic poetry imposed for centuries.
In the epic poems, Odysseus and Aeneas both obtain information necessary to their quest from the underworld, although Odysseus does not travel beyond the entrance.
It is now believed that the Trojan War spoken of in these epic poems was a real historical event, occurring around 1250 B.
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Anita Ganesh,
Poet
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Most of my poems run five or six stanzas in length but one has developed into an epic poem of over one hundred stanzas!
Gifford writes with an economy of language, poems are not long and rambling epics but examples of poems in which the volume of ideas outweighs the volume of words.
These stories were collected in the 19th Century and compiled into one story, composed of a masterful collection of epic poems that reveal the daily life of the people over millennia.
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Jack Crawford,
WWII Veteran
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The Macedonian epic poems told of other Serbian heroes as well.
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