Oral Art Forms and Their Passage into Writing

Else Mundal / Introduction 1
Theodore M. Andersson / From Tradition to Literature in the Sagas 7
Gísli Sigurðsson / Orality Harnessed: How to Read Written Sagas from an Oral Culture? 19
Tommy Danielsson / On the Possibility of an Oral Background for \'Gisla saga Súrssonar\' 29
Minna Skafte Jensen / The Oral-Formulaic Theory Revisited 43
Lars Boje Mortensen / From Vernacular Interviews to Latin Prose (ca. 600-1200) 53
Anna Adamska / Orality and Literacy in Medieval East Central Europe: Final Prolegomena 69
Sonja Petrović / Oral and Written Art Forms in Serbian Medieval Literature 85
Graham D. Caie / \'Ealdgesegena worn\': What the Old English \'Beowulf\' Tells Us about Oral Forms 109
Olav Solberg / The Scandinavian Medieval Ballad: From Oral Tradition to Written Texts and Back Again 121
Jonas Wellendorf / Apocalypse Now? The \'Draumkvæde\' and Visionary Literature 135
Bernt Øyvind Thorvaldsen / The Eddic Form and Its Contexts: An Oral Art Form Performed in Writing 151
Bergsveinn Birgisson / What Have We Lost by Writing? Cognitive Archaisms in Skaldic Poetry 163
Guðrún Nordal / The Dialogue between Audience and Text: The Variants in Verse Citations in \'Njáls saga\'s\' Manuscripts 185
Ljubiša Rajić / Mixing \'oratio recta\' and \'oratio obliqua\': A Sign of Literacy or Orality? 203
Else Mundal / Oral or Scribal Variation in \'Vǫluspá\': A Case Study in Old Norse Poetry 209