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Sutton Hoo by Caroline Coffey

History of Oral Tradition
Passing stories down by oral tradition means the stories are told by mouth from person to person. The stories are told with words, songs, chants, folktales, or ballads. Stories passed on orally are transmitted from one generation to another. A reason people used to tell stories without writing is because they were illiterate. As good as it was to not have to worry about being able to write stories down to record them, there was a problem with this method. The problem was the story ran the risk of getting slightly altered while passing through each generation, and the story would gradually continue to get the wrong information put into it. Source: []