Oral Tradition

Oral Tradition

An open-access journal devoted to the study of the world’s oral traditions, past and present.

Volume 36, Number 1

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A Pebble Smoothed by Tradition: Lines 607-61 of Beowulf as a Formulaic Set-piece

Leah Smith, Michael D. C. Drout

In this essay Drout and Smith use new “lexomic” methods of computer-assisted statistical analysis to identify a concentration of unusual…

Oral Features of the Qur’ān Detected in Public Recitation

Mary Knight

This essay examines textual features of the Qur’ān that may emerge more prominently as a result of listening to it,…

The Fairy-Seers of Eastern Serbia: Seeing Fairies—Speaking through Trance

Maria Vivod

The fairy-seers of Southeastern Europe are generally women who are able to communicate with the invisible world. They claim to…

Between the Oral and the Literary: The Case of the Naxi Dongba Texts

Duncan Poupard

This essay considers the orality of ritual texts written in the Naxi dongba script from southwest China. Historically, the inherent…

Eall-feala Ealde Sæge: Poetic Performance and “The Scop’s Repertoire” in Old English Verse

Charles D. Wright, Paul Battles

This essay identifies “The Scop’s Repertoire” as an Old English traditional theme. The theme associates the making of verse with…

A New Approach to the Classification of Gaelic Song

Virginia Blankenhorn

This essay illustrates the importance of songs and singing in traditional Gaelic society, revisits earlier attempts to classify Gaelic song,…

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