Oral-Formulaic Theory: Annotated Bibliography

Egon Werlich. "Der westgermanische Skop: Der Ursprung des Sangerstandes in semasiologischer und etymologischer Sicht." Zeitschrift für deutsche Philologie, 86:352-75.

Contends that the two terms wobora and scop, often used for the OE singer of tales, recall an earlier West Germanic singer. Explores the IE and Germanic reflexes of both words. OE gleoman, leowyrhta (cp. OHG liudari), and OHG leodslakkeo, on the other hand, were later coinages for description of the secular function of singer-poets.
Area: OE, OHG, GM, IE, CP