Word: teller
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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...Monthly for November opens with eight chapters of a serial by Stockton, "The House of Martha." Neither Martha nor House appears and the story so far has neither apparent subject nor object. It is told in the first person and concerns itself with a hired listener for the story-teller's stories and an amanuensis with a malarial husband. Stockton is no longer in his prime and this story threatens to be far from prime...
...early literature of Iceland was written in old Norse prose and poetry, the latter being subdivided into the poetry of the Edda and Skald or court poetry. The Icelandic poet was not a poet in the strict sense of the word, but a story teller who wandered about reciting tales of Scandinavian origin. The Saga, the heroic tradition of the Norsemen, is divided in three periods: the heroic period up to 1030; the period of development from 1030 to 1100, and a third period from 1100 to 1200, during which all these legends were written down. In speaking...