Oral-Formulaic Theory: Annotated Bibliography

Myles Dillon, coll. and trans. There Was a King in Ireland...: Five Tales from Oral Tradition. Austin: Univ ersity of Texas Press.

Notes in the introduction that these stories were collected about 1930 directly from oral tradition: "the original Irish is an exact record of what the speaker said, based upon dictaphone records, except for the last story, w hich was written down directly from the speaker's narrative" and that "the book therefore gives a true account of oral tradition" (p. 7). The five tales follow.
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