October 2000 Volume 15, Number 2 Download Media Front Matter Editor's Column Articles Tradition, Performance, and Poetics in the Early Middle English Period Mark C. Amodio Altai Oral Epic Lauri Harvilahti Collaborative Auto/biography: Notes on an Interview with Margaret McCord on The Calling of Katie Makanya: A Memoir of South Africa Stephan Meyer Body, Performance, and Agency in Kalevala Rune-Singing Anna-Leena Siikala On the Linguistic Properties of Formulaic Speech Koenraad Kuiper Konodai senki: Traditional Narrative and Warrior Ideology in Sixteenth-Century Japan Sybil Thornton Supplemental Materials About the Authors