March 2001 Volume 16, Number 1 Download Media Front Matter Editor's Column Articles Performance and Norse Poetry: The Hydromel of Praise and the Effluvia of Scorn Stephen Mitchell Homer and Rhapsodic Competition in Performance Derek Collins The Limits of Textuality: Mobility and Fire Production in Homer and Beowulf Guillemette Bolens Personal Favor and Public Influence: Arete, Arsinoë II, and the Argonautica Anatole Mori Milman Parry and A. L. Kroeber: Americanist Anthropology and the Oral Homer John F. García I Control the Idioms: Creativity in Ndebele Praise Poetry H.C. Groenewald Orality and Basque Nationalism: Dancing with the Devil or Waltzing into the Future? Linda White Supplemental Materials About the Authors