Based on this excerpt, what can readers infer about the stories the fishermen were told about the barbarians?

The stories are completely true.

The stories lack detail.

The stories are completely false.

The stories are exaggerations.

i really dont know the answer so i cant

c.) because it’s straight forward and uses the commas correctly

explanation:

beowulf is filled with alliterations, caesuras, and kennings intended both to give the epic a musical, rhythmic quality and to assist the bard performing the epic in remembering the lines. just as the lyrics to our favorite songs are easier to remember than a context-free list of names or census data, poetic devices like those listed above stick in the bard's mind.

it is not known if beowulf was chanted, sung, or recited more like a modern day poem, but the poetic devices evident in the epic almost certainly had their origin in memorization and oral recitation.