October 1999 Volume 14, Number 2 Download Media Front Matter Editor's Column Articles Writing as Relic: The Use of Oral Discourse to Interpret Written Texts in the Old French La Queste del Saint Lisa Robeson Speakerly Women and Scribal Men Christine Neufeld The Inscription of Charms in Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts Lea Olsan Oral-Formulaic Approaches to Coptic Hymnography Leslie MacCoull Serial Repetition in Homer and the “Poetics of Talk”: A Case Study from the Odyssey Elizabeth Minchin Epea Pteroenta (“Winged Words”) Françoise Létoublon A Treasury of Formulaic Narrative: the Persian Popular Romance Hosein-e Kord Ulrich Marzolph “Ah ain’t heard whut do tex’ wuz”: The (Il)legitimate Textuality of Old English and Black English Michael Saenger Supplemental Materials About the Authors