Oral Art Forms and Their Passage into Writing

What happens when oral texts are removed from their original medium and written down? This collection examines the complex interrelationship between the oral and the written and the problems of textualisation. Taking their point of departure in the theories of orality and literalisation as well as the preserved texts and their transmission the individual contributors, experts from the fields of Old Norse, Old English, Latin and Homeric studies as well as from later Serbian and Norwegian folklore, set out to explore the commonalities and differences in the process of literalisation.

Introduction	p. 1
From Tradition to Literature in the Sagas	p. 7
Orality Harnessed: How to Read Written Sagas from an Oral Culture?	p. 19
On the Possibility of an Oral Background for Gisla saga Surssonar	p. 29
The Oral-Formulaic Theory Revisited	p. 43
From Vernacular Interviews to Latin Prose (ca. 600-1200)	p. 53
Orality and Literacy in Medieval East Central Europe: Final Prolegomena	p. 69
Oral and Written Art Forms in Serbian Medieval Literature	p. 85
Ealdgesegena worn: What the Old English Beowulf Tells Us about Oral Forms	p. 109
The Scandinavian Medieval Ballad: From Oral Tradition to Written Texts and Back Again	p. 121
Apocalypse Now? The Draumkvaede and Visionary Literature	p. 135
The Eddic Form and Its Contexts: An Oral Art Form Performed in Writing	p. 151
What Have We Lost by Writing? Cognitive Archaisms in Skaldic Poetry	p. 163
The Dialogue between Audience and Text: The Variants in Verse Citations in Njals saga's Manuscripts	p. 185
Mixing oratio recta and oratio obliqua: A Sign of Literacy or Orality?	p. 203
Oral or Scribal Variation in Voluspa: A Case Study in Old Norse Poetry	p. 209
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