Oral-Formulaic Theory: Annotated Bibliography

Albert Daur. Das alte deutsche Volkslied nach seinen festen Ausdrucksformen betrachtet. Leipzig: Quelle und Meyer.

Understands the presence of formulas in Old Germanic poetry as a stylistic feature, part of t he Kunstsprache. Assembles a morphology of diction based on the function of formulaic phrases. An early study of patterned phraseology in the same critical tradition as, e.g., Sievers 1878, which gave birth to later kinds of formulaic analysis.
Area: OHG, MHG, GM