Author: Mundal, Else ; & Wellendorf, Jonas ; editors :
Title: Oral Art Forms and Their Passage into Writing
Description: Copenhagen, Museum Tusculanum, 2008. orig. boards. 24x16cm, vi,241 pages.. ISBN: 9788763505048. Minor wear. VG. ¶ Contains 15 papers. Includes: From Tradition to Literature in the Sagas; Orality Harnessed: How to Read Written Sagas from an Oral Culture?; On the Possibility of an Oral Background for Gísla saga Súrssonar; The Oral- Formulaic Theory Revisited; From Vernacular Interviews to Latin Prose (ca. 600–1200); Orality and Literacy in Medieval East Central Europe: Final Prolegomena; Oral and Written Art Forms in Serbian Medieval Literature; Ealdgesegena worn: What is the Old English Beowulf Tells Us about Oral Forms; The Scandinavian Medieval Ballad: From Oral Tradition to Written Texts and Back Again; Apocalypse Now? The Draumkvæde and Visionary Literature; The Eddic Form and Its Contexts: An Oral Art Form Performed in Writing; What Have We Lost by Writing? Cognitive Archaisms in Skaldic Poetry; The Dialogue between Audience and Text: The Variants in Verse Citations in Njáls saga’s Manuscripts; Mixing oratio recta and oratio obliqua: A Sign of Literacy or Orality?; Oral or Scribal Variation in Voluspá: A Case Study in Old Norse Poetry.

Keywords: 9788763505048 Medieval Literature, Literary History, Criticism, Oral Literature, Sagas, Saga, Scandinavian, ,