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Re:The Nobel Prize in Literature 2016 awarded to Bob Dylan by Tomte on Thursday October 13, 2016 @08:32AM (#12700272)
Remember the Song of Songs in the Bible.

Or the Nibelungenlied ("Lied" is German for song).

Song and story are very much related, especially since back when the people couldn't read, singing stories was more popular than today.

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Re:The Nobel Prize in Literature 2016 awarded to Bob Dylan by emodendroket on Thursday October 13, 2016 @12:50PM (#12702115)
The psalter is a much better example than the Song of Songs, IMO, given that there's no particular reason to think the latter was set to music.
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Re:The Nobel Prize in Literature 2016 awarded to Bob Dylan by ptaipale on Thursday October 13, 2016 @09:25AM (#12700571)
And telling the stories in poetic form and then singing them was a way to memorize them and teach them to next generation at the time when people had no skill to write and read.
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