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 | | From the dawn of Latin literature epic poetry seems to have been cultivated in Italy. |
 | | In Iceland, a new heroic literature was invented in the middle ages, and to this we owe the Sagas, which are, in fact, a reduction to prose of the epics of the warlike history of the North. |
 | | They form a curious transitional link between primitive and modern poetry; the literature of civilized Europe may be said to begin with them. |
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