Oral-Formulaic Theory: Annotated Bibliography

Madeleine Tyssens. La Geste de Guillaume d'Orange dans les manuscrits cycliques. Paris: Société d'Edition "Les Belles Lettres."

Argues that the surviving manuscripts were intended for libraries, and that the chansons were literary compositions (espec. pp. 452-58). Contends that the textual variants cited by Rychner (1955) as evidence of oral composition are simply the result of intervention by editors and copyists.
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