Oral-Formulaic Theory: Annotated Bibliography

Theodore M. Andersson. The Legend of Brynhild. Islandica, vol. 43. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

In Chapters 5 and 6 (pp. 151-228), he agrees with and explicates Heusler's position on Part I of the Nibelungenlied--that there was an "independent transmission of the two legends, the tale of Brynhild and Siegfried in an oral lay and the fall of the Burgundians in a written epic" (p. 205).
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