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Berengar the Scop, 890AD
(aka Nicole Kipar)
Meet Berengarthe Scop (Poet/storyteller). Berengar is Leofwine's scop, who recites poems such as 'Beowulf' and 'The Battle of Finnsburgh' at the thegn's hall.
The Scop
The scop was an important figure in Anglo-Saxon England, and could often achieve a high status in his lord's hall, receiving gifts of rings and precious metals. The scop not only recited songs and poems, but also composed them. These songs and poems were often the only forms of history in the non-literate world of the pagan Anglo-Saxons.
In Anglo-Saxon England the role of the Scop seems to have been exclusively a male one. Although Angelcynn does not usually encourage people taking on characters of the opposite sex, an exception has been made in Nicole's case because of her knowledge of the Old English language and poetry.
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