Upon arriving, he found nothing but the uncomfortable presence of death and decay, not the glory that heroic songs had led him to expect.

Although Tacitus doesn't distinguish between the barditus and the heroic songs, his choice of words implies a second genre.

The Tacitus source can be seen as the first testimony of early Germanic heroic songs.

Nezhata, a gusli player from Kiev, sings an heroic song.

Marina declares her preference for heroic songs of chivalry.

Be the praise and the heroic song of all posterity.

He composed heroic songs, and began to write many a tale of enchantment and knightly adventure.

It is a very popular heroic song of the land.

They started with one huge husky peasant who began singing an old historical heroic song of the Serbs.

Natives sung various heroic songs about this incident in later years.