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The Germanic Peoples |
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I he Germanic peoples—that is, those peoples which speak Germanic languages—can be divided into three groups on the basis of their folklore: 1) the English, including Scotland and Ireland; 2) the Scandinavians; and 3) the Dutch and the German-speaking peoples of Germany, Austria, most of Switzerland, and other areas in Eastern Europe. Although these three groups of peoples speak related languages, their cultures cannot be considered particularly similar, and this is also true of the styles of their folk music. Of course, the folk music of the Germanic peoples is known in different phases and varying degrees. For the English-speaking peoples there exists a vast body of ballads, collected in England as well as in America; and the
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