Oral-Formulaic Theory: Annotated Bibliography

Earl R. Anderson. "Formulaic Typescene Survival: Finn, Ingeld, and the Nibelungenlied." English Studies, 61:293-301.

Posits the type-scene "tragic court flyting," composed of (1) a tense situation created by arrival of strangers in a hall, (2) verbal surfacing of hostilities, (3) appearance of special weapons, and (4) battle and destruction of the hall. Appears twice in Beowulf (in the Finn and Ingeld episodes) and once in the Nibelungenlied (Aventiuren 28,29, 33, and 36). Anderson terms this element a traditional survival on the model of Renoir 1964.
Area: OE, MHG, CP