SCAND341 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Freestyle Rap, Nibelung, Ermanaric
11 Nov 2016
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Atli the hun and jormunrekr the goth. Covered with members of two family groups. Characters mortal heroes of the germanic migration age (around the year 500) Frequent appearances by reference to the norse pantheon (especially odin) Female host under odin, determine who lives and dies on the battlefiend. Half the dead to valhalla (einherjar), half to freyja"s hall folkvangr. The singer of tales (1960)- talk about epic poetry. How could these poems could be performed on demand- very long. A group of words which is regularly employed under the same metrical conditions to express a given essential idea. Fixed expression; epithets; fixed set of rhyming words. Helps to have a toolkit (like freestyle rap) Group of ideas regularly used in a tale in the formulaic style of traditional song. Preparations for battle, scenes of greeting and hospitality, festivals, and assemblies of commanders. The same theme can be expressed by a number of different formulae.
