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Painting_Agency t1_ixjmeoc wrote

Reply to comment by Pornalt190425 in Lost islands cited in Welsh folklore and poetry are plausible, new evidence on the evolution of the coastline of west Wales has revealed by marketrent

Sorry, for some reason I thought this was linked to in the comment we were threading.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ancient-sea-rise-tale-told-accurately-for-10-000-years/

> How could such tales survive hundreds of generations without being written down?

> “There are aspects of storytelling in Australia that involved kin-based responsibilities to tell the stories accurately,” Reid said. That rigor provided “cross-generational scaffolding” that “can keep a story true.”

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Pornalt190425 t1_ixkaoi4 wrote

Thanks for sharing that it was an interesting read! I guess with the right cultural carrots and sticks you could trust the story is being more accurately carried down the generations

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Painting_Agency t1_ixkhyv4 wrote

The Norse skalds recited their sagas as verse so it was easier to remember them verbatim... But they weren't maintaining that oral tradition checksum for 400 generations 😮

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