From a June 2004 conference in Bergen, Sweden, 15 essays investigate what can be learned about oral art by analyzing what are thought to be early written versions of works that had previously
been oral. Most of the examples are from the Norse sagas. The topics include how to read written sagas from an oral culture, the oral-formulaic theory revisited, orality and literacy in Serbian
Medieval literature, the eddic oral art form performed in writing, and whether mixing oration recta and oratio obliqua indicates literacy or orality. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation
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