All these different kinds of story were passed on by word of mouth, often in the form of verse ballads and romances. Professional storytellers repeated them as they traveled from place to place. In scandinavia , such fouring storyteller were called scalds ; In England and Ireland , minstrels ; In Germany , minnesingles. The French were entertained by troubadours and trouveres who made their stories from legends of the time of Charlemagne.