Oral-Formulaic Theory: Annotated Bibliography

Myles Dillon. "The Wooing of Becfhola and the Stories of Cano, Son of Gartnan." Moder n Philology, 43:11-17.

Working from a comparison of parallel passages, he posits that the bards who created them depended on sketchy "notes" during oral performance, that "the oldest texts are summaries of the matter of the story and that the form was given by the fili in actual performance and was his personal achievement" (17).
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