"The articles in this book ... build on papers presented at a conference organised by the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Bergen in June 2004"--Introduction. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
From tradition to literature in the sagas / Theodore M. Andersson -- Orality harnessed : how to read written sagas from an oral culture? / Gísli Sigurdsson -- On the possibility of an oral background for Gísla saga Súrssonar / Tommy Danielsson -- The oral-formulaic theory revisited / Minna Skafte Jensen -- From vernacular interviews to Latin prose (ca. 600-1200) / Lars Boje Mortensen -- Orality and literacy in medieval East Central Europe : final prolegomena / Anna Adamska -- Oral and written art forms in Serbian medieval literature / Sonja Petrović -- Ealdgesegena worn : what the Old English Beowulf tells us about oral forms / Graham D. Caie -- The Scandinavian medieval ballad : from oral tradition to written texts and back again / Olav Solberg -- Apocalypse now? : the Draumkvæde and visionary literature / Jonas Wellendorf -- The Eddic form and its contexts : an oral art form performed in writing / Berny Øyvind Thorvaldsen -- What have we lost by writing? : cognitive archaisms in skaldic poetry / Bergsveinn Birgisson -- The dialogue between audience and text : the variants in verse citations in Njáls saga's manuscripts / Gudrún Nordal -- Mixing oratio recto and oratio obliqua : a sign of literacy or orality? / Ljubiša Rajić -- Oral or scribal variation in Vo̜luspá : a case study in Old Norse poetry / Else Mundal.
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