Oral-Formulaic Theory: Annotated Bibliography

W. Edson Richmond. "Rhyme, Reason, and Re-creation." In Ballads and Ballad Research (Selected Papers of the International Conference on Nordic and Anglo-American Ballad Research, University of Washington, Seattle, May 2-6, 1977). Ed. Patricia Conroy. Seattle: University of Washington Press. pp. 58-67.

Tells of Moltke Moe's third major expedition to west Telemark, where he collected the texts of at least 54 ballad types from the Norwegian ballad "singer" Haege Bjonnemyr. With the help of Moltke Moe, Haege recited by memory the corpus of NW balladry sung at one time by her mother and mother's friends. Illustrates that the changes in her recreation were the result of "omissions, not of imaginative additions" (65).
Area: FB, NW