RSS 1.0Oral tradition, volume 32, number 1 (March 2018)
Table of Contents
- Cover
- Front Matter
- Editor's Column
- About the Authors (Back Matter)
- Articles
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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)"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 ... -
Between the oral and the literary: the case of the Naxi Dongba texts
(2018-03)"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 ... -
Oral features of the Qur’ān detected in public recitation
(2018-03)"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. -
A pebble smoothed by tradition: lines 607-61 of Beowulf as a formulaic set-piece
(2018-03)"In lines 607-61 of Beowulf, just before the battle between the hero and the monster Grendel, the Danes and visiting Geats celebrate their comradeship in the great hall of Heorot. While venerable Hrothgar, king of the ... -
A new approach to the classification of Gaelic song
(2018-03)"A good deal of water has flowed under the bridge since James Ross published “A Classification of Gaelic Folk-Song” in 1957.1 Ross’s study was typical of a time when scholars favored a clinical and taxonomical approach to ... -
Eall-feala Ealde Sæge: poetic performance and “The Scop's repertoire” in Old English verse
(2018-03)"“The Scop’s Repertoire” evinces remarkable longevity and stability as a poetic theme. The evidence surveyed here suggests that the theme has roots in preliterate Germanic poetic tradition, and it persists down to the ...