This research aims at examining the role of incorporated oral literature inrnTigrigna historical novel entitled Wodi Wa-ero. The study tries to identify thernimportance of the employed forms of oral literature to the theme of thernhistorical novel. The study has five chapters. The first chapter givesrnintroductory statements about oral literature and its limited studies. In thisrnchapter it has been tried to reveal the magnitude of the problem, the purpose,rnthe significance and the method of the study.rnIn the second chapter, an attempt has been made to give a theoretical reviewrnand previous studies have been assessed. The concept of oral literature, thernforms, the social significance, and oral literature and African literary worksrnare the main points discussed in this part. As the historical novel dates backrnto the northern Ethiopian colonial era, the historical condition of the time isrnbriefed in chapter three.rnAnalysis of various forms of oral literature employed in the novel is made inrnchapter four. In here, adequate genres of oral literature that are used in thernnovel like naming, proverbs, historic legends, tales and oral poems are takenrnand endeavors have been made to analyze and inquire the relevance of theirrnpresence in relation to the dominant themes of the novel. Focusing onrntransferring the intended idea, the selected forms of oral literature arerntranslated into English and the contexts the oral literature used have beenrnconsidered in analyzing them. Thus, in the last chapter, the researcher hasrnarrived at the conclusion that the various forms of oral literature are not putrnfor their own sake but the author has deliberately employed them to amplifyrnthe issues in the novel and as the result the themes are concretized andrnenlarged.