Medieval Storytelling and Analogous Oral Traditions Today: Two Digital Databases

Abstract

This essay presents two open-access digital databases of video clips of modern performances of medieval narratives and analogous living oral storytelling traditions: Performing Medieval Narrative Today: A Video Showcase and Arthurian Legend in Performance. To help people recognize the performability of medieval narratives, these websites offer examples of medieval-type storytelling that are still alive today in various parts of the world, as well as clips from performances of medieval narrative created by a new generation of storytellers.

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The home page of Performing Medieval Narrative Today: A Video Showcase.

Image: http://www.nyu.edu/pmnt.

The jyrau Jumabay Bazarov performs the Turkic Edige in Karakalpakistan, Uzbekistan.

Image: http://mednar.org/2012/06/17/edige-scene-from-turkic-epic/.

Awadallah Abd aj-Jalil Ali performs the Egyptian Hilali epic Abu Zayd in Aswan, Egypt.

Image: http://mednar.org/2012/06/13/hilali-epic-awadallah-sings-of-abu-zayd/.

Benjamin Bagby performs the Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf in Helsingborg, Sweden.

Image: http://mednar.org/2012/06/15/beowulf-beowulf-fights-grendel/.

Benjamin Bagby performs the Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf in New York.

Image: http://mednar.org/2012/02/13/beowulf/.

The homepage of the website Arthurian Legend in Performance.

Image: https://vimeo.com/ArthurPerform.

Matthieu Boyd performs the Welsh Triads in New York.

Image: http://vimeo.com/45391853.

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