Heroic poems composed in writing are generally anonymous within Germanic heroic legends. There is no data indicating if a group of professional singers was accountable for creating heroic poetry during Germanic times. References are similarly unclear for the majority of the Early Middle Ages. By the late 9th century, a figure referred to in Old English as a scop, in Old High German as a skof, and in Latin writings as a vates or psalmista, is documented as a kind of singer or minstrel living at t ... (Read More)