Traditional Oral Epic
  Preface

 expand sectionOne  Traditional Oral Poetics
 expand sectionTwo  Comparability of the Documents
 collapse sectionThree  Comparative Prosody
 •Prologus
 •Method
 •The Indo-European Question
 •Prosody and Prosodies
 •Prosody and Formulaic Structure: Their Interrelationship
 expand sectionThe Homeric Hexameter
 expand sectionThe Junacki Deseterac (Heroic Decasyllable)
 collapse sectionThe Old English Alliterative Line
 •The Beginnings: Sievers and Some Basic Principles
 •The Idiosyncratic Nature of Old English Meter
 •The Metrical Foundation
 •Patterns and Systems
 •Prosody and Composition
 •Coda
 expand sectionFour  Traditional Phraseology in the Odyssey
 expand sectionFive  Traditional Phraseology in the Serbo-Croatian Return Song
 expand sectionSix  Traditional Phraseology in Beowulf and Old English Poetry
 expand sectionSeven  Thematic Structure in the Odyssey
 expand sectionEight  Thematic Structure in the Serbo-Croatian Return Song
 expand sectionNine  Thematic Structure in Beowulf and Old English Poetry
 expand sectionTen  Story-Pattern in the Serbo-Croatian Return Song
  Eleven  Conclusion

 expand sectionAppendix
  References
 expand sectionIndex
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