Vernacular LiteratureThe idea that literary composition need not be exclusively in Latin and that works in the local languagesalso merited to be written down, gradually gained ground during the Middle Ages. Poema de Mio CidDas Nibelungenlied und die Klage The Canterbury Tales, by Chaucer "The Ellesmere Chaucer" Codex Altonensis of the Divina Commedia, by Dante Alighieri Leabhar na h-Uidhri (The Book of the Dun Cow)
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