Walter Goffart believes it is probable that in this narrative Paul was making use of an oral tradition, and is sceptical that it can be dismissed as merely a typical topos of an epic poem.

Books 2 – 6 of the Itinerarium Regis Ricardi, a Latin prose narrative of the same events apparently compiled by Richard, a canon of Holy Trinity, London, are closely related to Ambroise's poem.

The debate might be framed starkly as follows: on the one hand, we can hypothesise a poem put together from various tales concerning the hero ( the Grendel episode, the Grendel's mother story, and the firedrake narrative ).

An epic ( from the Ancient Greek adjective ( epikos ), from ( epos ) " word, story, poem ") is a lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily concerning a serious subject containing details of heroic deeds and events significant to a culture or nation.

Another type of epic poetry is epyllion ( plural: epyllia ), which is a brief narrative poem with a romantic or mythological theme.

Epic: a long narrative poem in elevated style presenting characters of high position in adventures forming an organic whole through their relation to a central heroic figure and through their development of episodes important to the history of a nation or race.

Brahms strongly preferred writing absolute music that does not refer to an explicit scene or narrative, and he never wrote an opera or a symphonic poem.

He offers her hospitality ; they observe the Suitors dining rowdily while the bard Phemius performs a narrative poem for them.

The first clear reference to " rhymes of Robin Hood " is from the late-14th-century poem Piers Plowman, but the earliest surviving copies of the narrative ballads that tell his story date to the 15th century, or the first decade of the 16th century.

The Victorian artist and poet Thomas Woolner wrote Silenus, a long narrative poem about the myth, in which Syrinx becomes the lover of Silenus, but drowns when she attempts to escape rape by Pan, as a result of the crime Pan is transmuted into a demon figure and Silenus becomes a drunkard.

Filomena tells this story, one of the most famous in the Decameron, and the basis of John Keats ' narrative poem Isabella, or the Pot of Basil.

One, the Catalepton, consists of fourteen short poems, some of which may be Virgil's, and another, a short narrative poem titled the Culex (" The Gnat "), was attributed to Virgil as early as the 1st century AD.

The prose narrative at the end of the poem relates that Sigrún dies of sadness, but that the two are thought to have been reborn as Helgi Haddingjaskati and the valkyrie Kára.

In chapter 8 of Fagrskinna, a prose narrative states that, after the death of her husband Eric Bloodaxe, Gunnhild Mother of Kings had a poem composed about him.

* In Christmas lore ( such as in the narrative poem " A Visit from St. Nicholas "), reindeer are often depicted pulling the sleigh of Santa Claus.

The Wedding-Guest's reaction turns from bemusement to impatience and fear to fascination as the Mariner's story progresses, as can be seen in the language style: for example, Coleridge uses narrative techniques such as personification and repetition to create either a sense of danger, of the supernatural or of serenity, depending on the mood of each of the different parts of the poem.

He published a collection of poems ( Spirits in Bondage ) and a narrative poem ( Dymer ) under the pen name " Clive Hamilton ", to avoid harming his reputation as a don at Oxford University.

His epic Annales, a narrative poem telling the story of Rome from the wanderings of Aeneas to the Ennius ' own time, remains the national epic until it is later eclipsed by Virgil's Aeneid ( b. 239 BC )

In 1884 Thomas Woolner published a long narrative poem about Silenus.

* Albertus, written in 1831 and published in 1832, is a long narrative poem of 122 stanzas, each consisting of 12 lines of alexandrine ( 12-syllable ) verse, except for the last line of each stanza, which is octosyllabic.

His epic Annales, a narrative poem telling the story of Rome from the wanderings of Aeneas to the Ennius ' own time, remains the national epic until it is later eclipsed by Virgil's Aeneid

The award-winning poet B. H. Fairchild wrote a narrative poem " Body and Soul " depicting the young Mickey Mantle.

In the ancient Song of Deborah, Naphtali is commended, along with Zebulun, for risking their lives in the fight against Sisera ; in the prose account of the event, which textual scholars regard as a much later narrative based on the poem, there is the addition that Barak, the leader of the anti-Sisera forces, hails from the tribe of Naphtali.

In the poem Helgakviða Hjörvarðssonar, a prose narrative says that an unnamed and silent young man, the son of the Norwegian King Hjörvarðr and Sigrlinn of Sváfaland, witnesses nine valkyries riding by while sitting atop a burial mound.

The Torah's Joseph narrative, at a stage when Joseph is unrecognised by his brothers, describes Joseph as testing whether his brothers have reformed, by secretly planting a silver cup in Benjamin's bag, then publicly searching the bags for it, and after finding it in Benjamin's possession, demanding that Benjamin become his slave as a punishment.

The narrative voice in many of the songs describes an erotic relationship, in the troubadour fashion, with the Divine.

" People of the Dark " is a remembrance story of " past lives ", and in its first-person narrative the protagonist describes one of his previous incarnations: Conan, a black-haired barbarian hero who swears by a deity called Crom.

Only the lowest in the community join Noah in believing in God's message ( XI: 29 ), and Noah's narrative further describes him preaching both in private and public.

Although much of the narrative of the Old Testament describes the Judeo-Christian God as interacting with creation primarily through persuasion, and only occasionally through force.

Book 4 concludes with a long mythological narrative, in the form of an epyllion which describes vividly the discovery of beekeeping by Aristaeus and the story of Orpheus ' journey to the underworld.

The Quran describes itself as a book of guidance, sometimes offering detailed accounts of specific historical events, and often emphasizing the moral significance of an event over its narrative sequence.

Gérard Genette, a French literary theorist and author of The Architext, describes Plato as creating three imitational genres: dramatic dialogue, pure narrative and epic ( a mixture of dialogue and narrative ).

A commonly used narrative that describes this kind of behavior is Joseph Conrad's short story " The Secret Sharer ".

In the Gideon narrative Naphtali are one of the tribes which join in an attack against Midianite invaders, though textual scholars regard the Gideon narrative as being spliced together from at least three earlier texts, the oldest of which describes only personal vengeance by Gideon and 300 men of his own clan, not a battle in which the rest of the northern tribes join him.

Emerton regards the evidence for this to be inconclusive, although classical rabbinical writers argued that this narrative describes the origin of levirate marriage.

Author Mary Shelley describes her impression of the painting in her travel narrative, Rambles in Germany and Italy published in 1844:

Magliocco describes the character of Aradia in Kelly's accompanying narrative as " a notably erotic character ; according to her teachings, the sexual act becomes not only an expression of the divine life force, but an act of resistance against all forms of oppression and the primary focus of ritual ".

As Cowell describes on the final, narrative track of the Folkways album on which his last piano recordings appear,

The hero's experience is recorded in " notebooks ", which are compiled to form the actual narrative, and which serve to record his unusual, mostly sexual, experiences in British India — the narrator describes himself as dominated by " a devilish indifference " towards " all things having to do with art or metaphysics ", focusing instead on eroticism.

Probably the earliest non-Western dramaturgic work is the Indian Sanskrit " Natayasatra " (' The Art of Theatre ') written about 100 AD, which describes the elements, forms and narrative elements of the ten major types of ancient Indian dance dramas.

Sacks describes his cases with a wealth of narrative detail, concentrating on the experiences of the patient ( in the case of his A Leg to Stand On, the patient was himself ).

Luke's narrative describes an angel announcing the birth of Jesus to shepherds who then visit the humble site where Jesus is found lying in a manger, a trough for cattle feed.

How one describes one's social environment relates closely to social origin because the instinctive narrative springs from early stages of development.

Jason Ankeny describes the Original Motion Picture Score as " epic in both sound and scale ", noting that it " ranks among Bernstein's most dazzling and entertaining efforts, evoking the widescreen wonder of its source material ", concluding that " his melodies beautifully complement the wit and creativity of the onscreen narrative.

The narrative is interrupted, and a second voice takes over, as Polia describes his erotomachia from her own point of view.

An aggadic narrative describes him as the king of all the shades ( Pesachim 109b – 112a ).

A narrative is a constructive format ( as a work of speech, writing, song, film, television, video games, photography or theatre ) that describes a sequence of non-fictional or fictional events.