Oral-Formulaic Theory: Annotated Bibliography

Robert E. Diamond. The Diction of the Anglo-Saxon Metrical Psalms. Janua Linguarum, Series Practica, 10. The Hague: Mouton.

Formulaic analysis of a random sample from the Paris Psalter against the OE poetic corpus, finding 50% formulaic with 24% whole-verse repeats. Understands these figures as suggesting a mechanical kind of composition and suggests that the same may be true of many other OE poems.
Area: OE