Oral-Formulaic Theory: Annotated Bibliography

Alain Renoir. "Oral-Formulaic Theme Survival: A Possible Instance in the Nibelungenlied." Neuphilologische Mitteilungen, 65:70-75.

Argues for the "hero on the beach/at the door" pattern (see Crowne 1960) as an oral-formulaic theme that survives in two medieval Germanic traditions, in the OE Beowulf and the MHG Nibelungenlied.
Area: MHG, OE, CP