Oral-Formulaic Theory: Annotated Bibliography

C.A. Trypanis. "Byzantine Oral Poetry." Byzantinische Zeitschrift, 56:1-3.

A very brief notice of late Byzantine oral poetry "which flourished mainly in the Greek lands occupied by the Francs" (1) and which may in part be of ultimate Frankish origin. Applies Parry-Lord theory, citing multiformity of language and textual variants typical of oral tradition, and notes the complexity of manuscript tradition resulting from oral transmission.
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