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**//__1. Oral traditional literature: __//**

The common people continued to use their respective vernaculars. A few examples, such as the Old EnglishBeowulf, the Middle High German Nibelungenlied, the Medieval Greek Digenis Acritas and the Old FrenchChanson de Roland, are well known to this day. Although the extant versions of these epics are generally considered the works of individual (but anonymous) poets, there is no doubt that they are based on their peoples' older oral traditions. Celtic traditions have survived in the lais of Marie de France, the Mabinogionand the Arthurian cycles.


 * //__2.The Arthur’s Legend __//**

The creator of the familiar literary persona of Arthur was Geoffrey of Monmouth, with his pseudo-historical //__Historia Regum Britanniae__// (History of the Kings of Britain), written in the 1130s. The textual sources for Arthur are usually divided into those written before Geoffrey's Historia (known as pre-Galfridian texts, from the Latin form of Geoffrey, Galfridus) and those written afterwards, which could not avoid his influence (Galfridian, or post-Galfridian, texts). Geoffrey of Monmouth is a the major figures in the development of British history and the popularity of tales of a King Arthur.  Are found within the book //__Hisoria Regum Britanniae__// ("History of the Kings of Britain"). The legend of King Arthur, tells the story of Arthur, he lives in Camelot with his beautiful Queen, Guinevere. Merlin the wizard and the Knights of the Round Table help King Arthur, and they many adventures together.


 * //__3. Geoffrey Chaucer: The first founder of the English language __//**

Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343 – 25 October 1400), known as the Father of English literature, is widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages and was the first poet to have been buried in Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey. While he achieved fame during his lifetime as an author, philosopher, alchemist and astronomer, composing a scientific treatise on the astrolabe for his ten year-old son Lewis, Chaucer also maintained an active career in the civil service as a bureaucrat, courtier and diplomat. Among his many works, which include The Book of the Duchess, the House of Fame, the Legend of Good Women and Troilus and Criseyde, he is best loved today for The Canterbury Tales. Chaucer is a crucial figure in developing the legitimacy of the vernacular, Middle English, at a time when the dominant literary languages in England were French and Latin.

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