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What happens when oral texts are removed from their original medium and written down? This collection examines the complex interrelationship between the oral and the written and the problems of textualisation. Taking their point of departure in the theories of orality and literalisation as well as the preserved texts and their transmission the individual contributors, experts from the fields of Old Norse, Old English, Latin and Homeric studies as well as from later Serbian and Norwegian folklore, set out to explore the commonalities and differences in the process of literalisation.
Contents
From Tradition to Literature in the Sagas (Theodore M Andersson); Orality harnessed with a quill in hand -- How to read written sagas from an oral culture (Gísli Sigurðsson); On the Possibility of an Oral Background for Gísla saga Súrssonar (Tommy Danielsson); The oral-formulaic theory revisited (Minna Skafte Jensen); From vernacular interviews to Latin prose (Lars Boje Mortensen); Literacy in Medieval East-Central Europe -- Final prolegomena (Anna Adamska); Oral and Written Art Forms in Serbian Literature (Genres, Motifs, Heroes, Narrative Models, Style, Formulas, Interference, Transitional Forms) (Sonja Petrovic); 'Ealdgesagena worn' (a multitude of ancient stories) -- What the Old English 'Beowulf' tells us about Oral Art Forms (Graham D. Caie); The Scandinavian medieval ballad -- from oral tradition to written texts -- and back again (Olav Solberg); Apocalypse Now? The Draumkvæde as Visionary Literature (Jonas Wellendorf); The Eddic form and its contexts (Bernt �yvind Thorvaldsen); What have we lost by writing? -- Cognitive archaisms in Scaldic poetry (Bergsveinn Birgisson); The dialogue between the audience and the text -- The variants in verse citations in Njáls saga's manuscripts (Guðrún Nordal); Change between oratio tecta and oratio obliqua -- a sign for orality or literacy? (Ljubisa Rajic); Oral or scribal variations in Voluspá. A case study in Old Norse poetry (Else Mundal).
