| Traditional Oral Epic |
| Preface |
 | One Traditional Oral Poetics |
| Two Comparability of the Documents |
| Three Comparative Prosody |
| Four Traditional Phraseology in the Odyssey |
| Five Traditional Phraseology in the Serbo-Croatian Return Song |
 | Six Traditional Phraseology in Beowulf and Old English Poetry |
| • | From Prosody to Formulaic Structure |
| • | The Spectrum of Traditional Phraseology in Beowulf |
| • | Grendel's Approach to Heorot and Traditional Structure |
| Analysis |
| • | Traditional Rules: A Summary |
| Seven Thematic Structure in the Odyssey |
| Eight Thematic Structure in the Serbo-Croatian Return Song |
| Nine Thematic Structure in Beowulf and Old English Poetry |
| Ten Story-Pattern in the Serbo-Croatian Return Song |
| Eleven Conclusion |
| Appendix |
| References |
| Index |