Oral-Formulaic Theory: Annotated Bibliography

Karl Reichl. "Oral Tradition and Performance of the Uzbek and Karakalpak Epic Singers." In Fragen der mongolischen Heldendichtung, vol. 3. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. pp. 613-43. With musical transcriptions.

Maintains that a common Indo-European tradition accounts for the similarities of the Uzbek oral epic with medieval European epic literature and demonstrates the Uzbek oral tradition to be a valid comparand for Old English and Old French.
Area: UZ, OE, OF, IE, CP