| 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 |
| 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 |
| • | A Singer's Error |
| • | The Return Song |
| The Singers and Their Songs |
| • | The AA/OA: Its Fundamental Form |
| • | Conclusion |
| Eleven Conclusion |
| Appendix |
| References |
| Index |