Oral-Formulaic Theory: Annotated Bibliography

Francis P. Magoun, Jr. "A Note on Old West Germanic Poetic Unity." Modern Philology, 43:77-82.

In discussing the similarities among and possible mutual intelligibility of Old West Germanic language traditions, he observes that "beyond a large common stock-in-trade of traditional story, the accumulations of parallel phrases and locations that are sprinkled through the commentaries of this poetry in whatever language, even in that of the Waltharii poësis, afford striking testimony to a basic, persistent community of diction" (78).
Area: OE, OHG, OSX, GM, CP