CONTENTS

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I.The early narrative poetry of the Teutonic peoples[1]
II.The Heroic Age of the Teutonic peoples[19]
III.Scene and nationality in the heroic stories[30]
IV.The origin and history of the heroic poems[41]
V.The poetry and minstrelsy of early times[77]
VI.Supernatural elements in the heroic stories[110]
VII.Mythical elements in the heroic poems[131]
VIII.The use of fiction in the heroic poems[151]
IX.The Heroic Age of Greece[168]
X.The Homeric poems[193]
XI.Early Greek poetry and minstrelsy[221]
XII.Supernatural elements in the Homeric poems[249]
XIII.Myth in the Homeric poems[263]
XIV.Fiction in the Homeric poems[292]
XV.The common characteristics of Teutonic and Greek heroic poetry[320]
XVI.Society in the Heroic Age[344]
XVII.Government in the Heroic Age[366]
XVIII.Religion in the Heroic Age[393]
XIX.The causes and antecedent conditions of the Heroic Age[432]