"One of the ways in which literary scholarship has been energized during the past fifty years is through fieldwork investigating how oral art forms function in traditional societies. Another way has been through research into the residual impression of oral art forms in literature that is preserved in script or print. Oral Art Forms and their Passage into Writing carries the second of these discussions into new ground, highlighting many points of interest as it does so. ... a book that meets high scolarly standards thoughout. It seems to be almost free from typographical errors - a sign of the editorial care with which it was produced. Physically it is printed clearly on good paper in a volume that is well bound. In all these respects it compares favorably with equivalent books now being produced by British and North American university presses, sometimes at a higher price though not often with equal quality. The two co-editors and the Museum Tusculanum Press (of the University of Copenhagen) are to be congratulated for having produced a fine critical anthology, one that should stimulate much thought about the protean processes by which oral art forms and literary cultures intersect." - John D. Niles, Journal of English and Germanic Philology, July 2009