Oral tradition, volume 32, number 1 (March 2018)

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Eall-feala Ealde Sæge: Poetic Performance and "The Scop's Repertoire" in Old English Verse
by Paul Battles, Charles D. Wright
Between the Oral and the Literary: The Case of the Naxi Dongba Texts
by Duncan Poupard
The Fairy-Seers of Eastern Serbia: Seeing Fairies—Speaking through Trance
by Maria Vivod
A New Approach to the Classification of Gaelic Song
by Virginia Blankenhorn
Oral Features of the Qur'ān Detected in Public Recitation
by Mary Knight
A Pebble Smoothed by Tradition: Lines 607-61 of Beowulf as a Formulaic Set-piece
by Michael D. C. Drout, Leah Smith

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The fairy seers of Eastern Serbia: seeing fairies—speaking through trance
(2018-03) Vivod, Maria
"The fairy-seers are called numerous names in various languages across southeastern Europe. The semantic field of these varying designations is far from identical: sometimes the seers need not enter into a trance to see them, sometimes they fight (nocturnal) battles in the sky to ensure good crops for their region, where they live and work as any normal human being. But there is one common denominator to all of them: they undergo a process of initiation (prompted by these creatures) and the invisible creatures with whom they communicate are females. I choose to use this term in an attempt to cover and to depict a vast range of more or less similar phenomena across the Balkans with an English term, with the goal of creating an “umbrella term” in the English language (nowadays a lingua franca) for working purposes."--Page 53.
Between the oral and the literary: the case of the Naxi Dongba texts
(2018-03) Poupard, Duncan
"It is my argument that not only can the ritual texts of the Naxi people of southwest China be proven to be demonstrably oral in nature, but that they also exist in a realm of potentiality that occupies the uncontested territory between the two extremes of oral and written: they are truly transitionary texts."--Pages 27-28.
Oral features of the Qur’ān detected in public recitation
(2018-03) Knight, Mary
"This essay examines some of the textual features of the Qur’ān that emerge more prominently when listening to it, features that may enhance insight gained during slow or silent reading sessions."--Page 141.

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