《格萨尔》是目前发掘的世界上最长的史诗。这部千百年来在雪域民族中传唱不衰的卷帙浩繁的巨著,是如何为艺人所掌握的?这成为史诗研究中一个仍悬而未决的问题。帕里———洛德理论是试图对“荷马问题”作出当代回答为缘起而出现的一种突破以往研究格局的思路。他从分析荷马史 Gesar is the longest epic in the world to date. This huge volume of monuments that have been sung in the snow-capped nations for centuries has been mastered by artists. This has become an unresolved issue in epic research. Parry --- Lode theory is trying to break out of the past pattern of research on the origin of the “Homer Problem”. He analyzed Homer’s history