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…
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…
View the eCompanion
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…
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,…
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,…
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…
View the eCompanion
