Oral Art Forms and their Passage into Writing
Distributed for Museum Tusculanum Press
242 pages
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© 2008
when oral texts are removed from their original medium and written down? The present collection examines the complex relationship between the oral and the written and the problems of textualization. Taking their point of departure in the theories of orality and literalization 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, explore the commonalities and differences in the process of literalization within the medieval world as well as in recent times.
Contents
Introduction
Else Mundal
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 Petrovic
Ealdgesegena worn: What is 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
Bernt 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 recta and oratio obliqua: A Sign of Literacy or Orality?
Ljubiša Rajic
Oral or Scribal Variation in Voluspá: A Case Study in Old Norse Poetry
Else Mundal
Index
Else Mundal
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 Petrovic
Ealdgesegena worn: What is 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
Bernt 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 recta and oratio obliqua: A Sign of Literacy or Orality?
Ljubiša Rajic
Oral or Scribal Variation in Voluspá: A Case Study in Old Norse Poetry
Else Mundal
Index
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