Oral-Formulaic Theory: Annotated Bibliography

D.K. Wilgus. "The Aisling and the Cowboy: Some Unnoticed Influences of Irish Vision Poetry on Anglo-American Balladry." Western Folklore, 44:255-300.

Studies the influences of three types of Irish vision poetry, the love- or fairy-aisling, the prophecy aisling, and the allegorical aisling, in folk ballads of the western United States, concluding that geographical distances are "spanned by the tenacity of the folk tradition of which we are all a part..." (300).
Area: FB, MI, US