| 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 |
| Eleven Conclusion |
| Appendix |
| References |
 | Index |
| • | A |
| • | B |
| • | C |
| • | D |
| • | E |
| • | F |
| • | G |
| • | H |
| • | I |
| • | J |
| • | K |
| • | L |
| • | M |
| • | N |
| • | O |
| • | P |
| • | Q |
| • | R |
| • | S |
| • | T |
| • | U |
| • | V |
| • | W |
| • | X |
| • | Y |
| • | Z |