I don't know if it helps as a benchmark, but I know of a wonderful ceremony by the members of the Delaware Nation, where their history-keepers annually recite the Walum Olum - their spiritual and tribal history going back to creation. It takes at least a day, possibly two, with participants trading off. I understand there's some question of it's authenitcity, but for recitation of a culture's oral history, it's the only one I know. Most of the teaching-of-the-young-ones is framed in stories, like Aesop's fables. So maybe the quantity of material that person would know would be the equivalent of a substantial book of Aesop's fables, plus two days? Can an Aesop be a unit of measurement?
Going another direction, someone at Pennsic (?Garraed) talked about the bardic colleges and Brehon law, and it sounded like the different levels matched 1, 4 and 10 years of schooling. So how much material can be covered in one unit of CEU credit, times two semesters times a full time schedule?
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sorry if I'm babbling, but you bring up such GOOD questions...
Date: 2008-05-19 11:14 pm (UTC)I don't know if it helps as a benchmark, but I know of a wonderful ceremony by the members of the Delaware Nation, where their history-keepers annually recite the Walum Olum - their spiritual and tribal history going back to creation. It takes at least a day, possibly two, with participants trading off. I understand there's some question of it's authenitcity, but for recitation of a culture's oral history, it's the only one I know. Most of the teaching-of-the-young-ones is framed in stories, like Aesop's fables. So maybe the quantity of material that person would know would be the equivalent of a substantial book of Aesop's fables, plus two days? Can an Aesop be a unit of measurement?
Going another direction, someone at Pennsic (?Garraed) talked about the bardic colleges and Brehon law, and it sounded like the different levels matched 1, 4 and 10 years of schooling. So how much material can be covered in one unit of CEU credit, times two semesters times a full time schedule?
Innnnnnnnteresting to think about.