I agree. That’s why I said “roughly”. My own prof was an American. Ever watch Bagby? : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VX_mDfRib8k&feature=PlayList&p=B9C6CC7023D5CF78&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=6
I follow C.S. Lewis's theory (you can find it in his Preface to Paradise Lost) that the recitations of the skald (or scop) were more formal. He cites somebody's account of a recitation, it sounds more like the function of a cantor -- i.e. the god speaking through his mouthpiece. Lewis contrasted that with the less formal drinking songs and popular poetry that coexisted at the time - the equivalent of "The Rugby Song", I guess.
Somewhere I have an audio tape of Tolkien reading Anglo Saxon. He sounds very Oxford . . . !
And we won’t really know until (if) we get to Heaven, then we can look up Caedmon and beg him to recite for us.