The Heroic Age

by H. Munro Chadwick

INDEX

Achaia [174], [282], [289].
Achaioi (Achaeans) [176] f., etc., (in Crete) [177] f., [186] f.
Achilles [175], [222], [250], [263] f., [269], [275] ff., [288] f., [295] f., [462].
Aðils (cf. Eadgils) [17], [20], [31], [153] f.
Aelfwine (see Alboin).
Aeolic element in Homeric poems [208], [215], [273], [290] f.
Aeolic peoples, etc. 209, [272] ff., [295] f.
Aeolis [210] f., [227], [231] ff., [240].
Aeschylus [171], [237] ff.
Agamemnon (i) of Cyme [227], [231].
Agamemnon (ii) of Mycenae [174], [222], [237] ff., [274] ff., [288] f., [302], [382] ff.
Aias (i), son of Oileus [175], [302].
Aias (ii), son of Telamon [175], [202], [204], [302] f.
Aithiopis [170], [197], [236], [244].
Alboin [26], [28], [462].
Alcinoos [384].
Alcman [215], [222], [266].
Alcuin [41], [73], [79] f., [465].
Aldhelm [80].
Áli (cf. Onela) [20], [153] f.
alliances [373] f., [387] ff.
Amalaswintha [371] f.
Ammianus Marcellinus [23], [366].
Amyclai [240], [302].
Angli [31] f., [51], [61], [97] f., [376], [405].
Ansgar [255] f.
Aphrodite [416] ff.
Apollo [250] f., [416] ff.
Arcadian [284] f., [287], [436] f., [453].
Archilochos [194], [216], [226] f.
Ares [416] ff.
Argo [196], [245], [261].
Argos [274] ff.
Artemis [416].
Ásgarðr [400].
Asia Minor (ethnography of) [178], [245] ff.
assembly [368] f., [382] f.
Athene [250] f., [416] ff.
Athens [171], [216] ff., [381], [421].
Atli (cf. Attila) [13] f., [22], [146] f.
Attila [22], [37] f., [84] f., [156].
Audoin [371].
Balder [112], [400] f., [405].
Bavarian characters [31], [33].
Bede [71], [73], [79], [350], [414] f.
Bellerophon [212], [356] f., [380].
Beowulf [1] f., [47] ff., etc.
Bernlef [80], [87], [222], [243].
Biarkamál [17], [60], [121], [402].
Biarki [119] ff., [466].
birds (speaking) [98], [128].
Bithynians [245] f.
boasting [326] f.
Boeotia [214], [283] f.
Bosnian poetry [101] ff., [216], [429].
Bragi [15], [58].
Bravalla (Brávík) [25], [251].
bronze and iron [195], [199] f.
Brunanburh (poem) [3], [34], [332].
Brynhildr [7], [13] f., [140] ff., [163] ff.
Burgundians [7], [22], [31], [351], [366].
Cadmos [267].
Caedmon [45] f., [79], [230], [465].
Caesar [413], [427] ff.
Callinos [171], [226] f.
Caria, Carians [179], [245] ff.
Cassiodorus [26], [85], [374].
Catalogue (Hesiodic) [194], [197] f., [227], [242].
Catalogue of Ships [174], [279], [289], [379], [387] f., [468].
Chalon-sur-Saône [162].
chariot [203] f.
Charles Martel [127] f.
Chios [176], [209].

Christian influence in Anglo-Saxon poems [47] ff., [241].
Cilices [246] ff.
Cinaithon [170].
Circe [258] f., [419].
class gradations [351] f., [364] f.
Cleisthenes [193].
Clovis [31], [85], [347].
Clytaimnestra [229], [237] f.
Cnossos [178], [311].
comitatus [328] f., [348], [350], [361] ff., [376] f., [443].
council [369] ff., [383] ff.
cremation [53] ff., [397] f., [410] f., [422] f., [467].
Crete [177] f., [184] ff., [311] ff., [435], [450] ff., [467].
Cumbrian history [108] f., [430], [446] f.
Cyme [214].
Cynewulf (i), poet [45].
Cynewulf (ii), king of Wessex [349], [351].
Cynurioi [460].
Cypria [170], [197], [234] ff., [244], [248].
Cyzicos [196].
Danes [1] f., [15], [17], [20] f., [24] f., [29], [31], etc.
Danish heroes [1] f., [17], [20], [31], etc.
Demodocos [221], [234].
Deor [3], [56], [81], [92].
Dietrich von Bern (cf. Theodric) [5], [7] ff., [23], [154] f., [311] f., [333], [452].
Diomedeia [250] f.
Diomedes [175], [278], [379] f., [419].
divine parentage [264], [357].
divinity of kings [367], [381] f.
Dodona [417], [437].
Doloneia [198] f., [298].
Dorians [174], [178] f., [184], [186] f., [459].
dragons [122] ff.
Dušan [430], [448], [461].
Eadgils (i) [2], [27], [32], [56], [81].
Eadgils (ii) (cf. Aðils) [2], [20], [153].
Eastgota (see Ostrogotha).
Edda (Older) [10] ff., [99] f., [232].
Edda (Prose) [15].
Edda theology [394], [400], [404], [406] f.
Edwin [334], [349], [369].
Egill Skallagrímsson [16], [226].
Egypt [184] f., [187] ff., [266], [455].
Einhard [5], [62], [243].
Eireksmál [15], [257].
Ekkehard [6], [57], [162].
Eormenric (Ermenrich) [2] f., [8] ff., [23], [37], [157], [347].
Epeiros [437], [460].
Epigonoi [171].
eponymous heroes [131] f., [267] ff., [301].
Eratosthenes [179].
Eric the Victorious [252] f.
Etruscans [449] f.
Etzel (cf. Atli) [7] f., [22], etc.
Exodus (Anglo-Saxon) [45], [464].
Eyvindr Skaldaspillir [15] f., [91], [254].
family pride [327] f.
festivals [369], [383].
fictitious names [44], [159] ff., [299].
Finn [2], [20], [26], [42], [333].
folk-tales [110] ff., [258] ff., [264] ff., [466] f.
Franks [31], [39], [337], [343], [345] f., [352], [368], [460].
Frey [11], [15], [125], [253], [367], [394] f., [399] ff., [404].
Freyia [11] f., [400], [402].
Fria (cf. Frigg) [115], [408].
Frigg [394], [403], [405].
Frisians [2], [31], [80], [89] f., [370].
Fróði [15], [27], [123] ff., [467].
Gaulish heroic poetry [427] f.
Gaulish history [427] ff., [449] f.
Gautreks Saga [239], [385], [403].
Geatas (Götar) [1] f., [31] f., [35], [119] f., etc.
Gelimer [86], [94].
genealogies, Anglo-Saxon [42], [408] f.
genealogies, Greek [179] ff., [267].
Genesis (Anglo-Saxon) [211], [464].
Genseric [369] f., [460].
Geruthus [258] f.
Glaucos [341].
glory, love of [87] f., [325] f., [329].
glossaries, Anglo-Saxon [68], [70].
Glúmr [253].
Göndul [254], [263].
Gormo [258] ff.
Gothic heroic poetry [10], [62] f., [86] f.
Goths [23], [26], [31] ff., etc.
Grendel [116] f., [121] f., [466].
Grettis Saga [116] f., [467].
Guðrún [13] f., [37], [146] f., [152] f., [156], [163] ff.
Gundobad [22], [338] f.

Gunnarr (see Guthhere)
Gunnlaugs Saga [91] f.
Guntharius, Gunther (see Guthhere).
Guthhere (Gunnarr, Gunther) [6] f., [14], [21] f., [138] f., [141] ff., [146] f., [163], [165].
Gylfaginning [229].
Haakon, earl of Lade [16], [91], [252] ff., [401] f.
Haakon I, king of Norway [15], [91], [254], [263].
Hades [422] f.
Hadingus [125] f., [260].
Haethcyn [337], [346].
Hagbarðr [17], [27], [333].
Hagena (Högni) (i), [6] f., [14], [137] f., [140] ff., [161] f.
Hagena (Högni) (ii), see Heðinn and Högni.
Hákonarmál [15], [97], [254] f.
Hamðir and Sörli [14], [37], [156] f., [160] f., [333] (cf. Sarus and Ammius).
Haraldr Hilditönn [17], [24] f., [251].
Harold the Fair-haired [15], [91], [296].
Hávamál [11], [229], [397].
heathen elements in Beowulf [52] f.
Hector [269] ff.
Heðinn and Högni [16], [21], [27] f., [112], [135] ff. 333 (cf. Hetel and Hagen).
Helen [249], [265] ff., [337].
Helios (cattle of) [259].
Hellenic peoples [285] ff.
Hephaistos [416] f.
Hera [416] ff.
Heracleidai, Return of the [174], [180], [331].
Heremod [20], [60], [366].
Herhor [312].
Hermanaricus [10], [19], etc. (cf. Eormenric).
Hermes [416].
Heruli [346], [372] f., [407], [411], [445].
Hesiod [171] f., [194], [210], [214] f., [223], [228] ff., [242].
Hetel and Hagen (cf. Heðinn and Högni) [8] f., [21], etc.
Hildr (Hilde) [8] f., [16], [136] f.
Hildebrandslied [5],

[62], [94] f.
Hiörungavágr [252].
Hittites [178], [188] ff., [204] f., [246] f.
Holmryge (cf. Rugii) [21], [28].
Homer's birthplace [179], [208] f.
Homeric armature [185] f., [191], [201] ff.
Homeric civilisation [186] f., [199] ff., [434] ff.
Hornklofi [15], [91].
Hrólfr Kraki [17], [20], [349].
Hrólfs Saga Kraka [120] ff.
Hrothgar [1] f., [20], [83], [119], [354], [368], [462].
Hygd, [372].
Hygelac [1] f., [24], [341], [371] f.
Hyndlulióð 12, [229], [402], [468].
Iason [196].
Iceland [10], [91] ff., [394] f., [398] ff.
Idomeneus [175], [278], [306].
Iliad [169], [174] f., [193] ff., etc.
images [205].
Ingeld (Ingellus, Ingialdr) [17], [36], [41] f., [61], [333], [465] f.
inscriptions, Anglo-Saxon [69], [71], [214].
inscriptions, Greek [209], [217], [280] f.
international interest of heroic poetry [34] ff., [335] f.
international relations [373] ff., [386] ff.
invulnerability [129], [264].
Ionian Isles [175], [274].
Ionic cities [176], [236], [245] f.
Ionic dialects [208] f., [215] ff., [283].
Ionic language of Homeric poems [208], [215] ff., [273].
Iörmunrekr [14], [19], etc. (cf. Eormenric).
Iphigeneia [238] f.
Istros [269] f.
Ithaca [356], [378].
Jómsvíkingar [251].
Jordanes [10], [26], [62], [86] f., [157].
kindred [344] ff., [353] ff., [442] f.
kingship [227] f., [337], [366] ff., [378] ff.
kinsman (slaying of) [346] ff., [359] f.
Kossovo [313], [316] f., [429], [441].
Kraljević Marko [441].
Kriemhild (cf. Guðrún) [7] f., [19], [145] ff., [163] ff.
Kûdrûn [8] f., [16], [19], [34], [135] f.
Langobardi [9], [26], [62], [89], [115], [371] ff.
Langobardic poetry [9] f., [115], [251], [413].
Langres [31], [162].
Lazar [313] ff.
Leire [377], [403].
Leleges [246], [248].
Lesbos [176].

Little Iliad [170], [197], [236].
Ljubović (Beg) [103], [441].
Locrians [269] f., [278], [357].
Loðbrók (Ragnarr) [17], [24], [295] f.
Lokasenna [11], [83], [403].
Loki [11], [403].
Ludwigslied [5], [21], [34].
Lycians [178] f., [212], [356] f.
Lycurgos [334] f.
Maldon (poem) [3], [97].
manes-worship [398] f., [410], [421].
Marcellinus Comes [37].
marriage-customs [98], [205], [358] f.
Menelaos [175], [277], [356], [362].
Merenptah [187], [455].
mercenary service [445] ff., [455] f., [461].
Merovingians [345] f., [367].
Merseburg charms [405], [408] f., [412].
Midas [227].
Miletos [176], [231], [246].
Miloš Obilić 314 f., [317] f.
Mimnermos [332].
Minoan civilisation [184] ff., [451] ff.
Minos [310] ff.
minstrelsy [79] ff., [221] ff.
Murad I 313 ff.
Mycenae [185], [240], [274], [308] f., [435], [450] ff.
Mycenean civilisation [185] ff., [190] ff., [200] ff., [218], [233], [435] ff., [451] f.
Nekyia [197], [229], [257], [260] f.
Nestor [175], [272], [277], [342].
Nibelungenlied [7], [139] ff., [164] f., [224], [233], [393], [467].
Niflungar (Nibelunge) [140] ff.
Niörðr [399] f., [405].
nobility [352], [364].
north-west Greek [281] ff.
Norway [10], [15], [30], [32] f., [59], [91] f., [100], [118] ff., [375], [395], [401], [404], [406] f.
Nostoi [170], [197], [234] ff.
Odoacer [23], [376] f.
Odysseus [175], [258], [273] f., [288] f., [297] ff., [358], [363] f., [419].
Odyssey [169], [175], [193] ff., etc.
Offa (i), king of Angel [4], [17], [26] f., [126], [333], [376].
Offa (ii), king of Mercia [126], [334] f.
officials [352].
Ohthere (Óttarr) [20], [153].
Old Saxons [88] f., [370], [407], [410].
Olympos [232], [416] f.
Onela (cf. Áli) [2], [20], [153] f., [347].
Ongentheo [2], [153], [340].
Orestes [237].
Orms Tháttr Storolfssonar [117] f., [467].
Ostrogotha [10], [21], [26].
Othin [11], [13], [114], [251], [253] ff., [394] ff. (cf. Woden).
Óttarr (i), son of Innsteinn [12], [402], [468].
Óttarr (ii), father of Aðils (see Ohthere).
Paphlagonia [245].
Paris [222], [229], [269] ff.
Patroclos [328] f., [361] f.
patronymics [355].
Paulus Diaconus [25] f., [372] f.
Peisistratos [216], [256].
Pelasgic Argos [274], [278] ff.
Pelasgoi [177], [186], [248], [285] ff.
Penelope [358] f.
Pentaur (Poem of) [247], [455].
Periandros [261], [422].
personal allegiance [348] ff., [361] ff.
personal names (heroic) [42] ff., [64] ff., [231].
Phaeacians [297], [299] f., [384] f.
Phaistos [268], [311].
Phemios [221], [234].
Philistines (see Pulesatha).
Phocis [283].
Phoinix [279], [360] f., [363].
Phthia [279], [286].
Phthiotis [176], [280], [282], [286] f.
place-names (heroic) [43] f.
Poseidon [416] ff.
Polyphemos [258].
Praisos [178], [213].
priests [367], [380].
Priscus [37], [62], [84].
Procopius [86], [97] ff., [128] ff., etc.
Proitos [212], [452].
Pulesatha [188] ff., [455] f.
Pylos [277], [451].
Quedlinburg Annals [6], [9], [23], [37], [80].
Rabenschlacht [8], [23].
Radiger [98], [370] f.
Rameses II 188, [247], [455].

Rameses III 185, [188] f., [455].
Ravenna [23], [452].
Reginsmál, Fáfnismál, Sigrdrífumál [13], [145], [235].
riding [204].
Roman influence [444] ff.
royal marriages [373] f., [386] f.
Rugii [28], [31], [134] (cf. Holmryge).
Russian heroic poetry [104] f.
Salamis [193], [302] f.
sanctuaries [205] f., [400] f., [406] f.
Sarpedon [305], [357].
Sarus (i) [160] f., [377], [467].
Sarus (ii) and Ammius [10], [14], etc. (cf. Hamðir and Sörli).
Saxo Grammaticus [17], [20], [25], etc.
Scheria [379], [384].
Scyld [75], [131] f., [373].
Servian (Christian) heroic poetry [103] f., [313] ff., [429] f.
Servian history [313] ff., [430], [447] ff.
Sety I 204.
Seyfridslied [7], [122], [140] f., [144] f.
Shardina [188] ff., [201], [451], [454] ff.
shield [201] f.
Shield of Heracles [169], [175].
Sidonius Apollinaris [85].
Siegfried [7], [19], [31], [33], [139] ff., [164] (cf. Sigurðr).
Sigarr [17], [21].
Sigmundr (Sigemund) [2], [16], [59] f., [114], [122] ff., [142], [251], [297].
Sigurðr [12] ff., [59], [114], [139] ff., [163] ff., [263] f., [333] (cf. Siegfried).
Sigurðr Hringr [17], [24] f., [251].
single combats [339] f.
Smyrna [208] ff., [332].
Sparta [179] ff., [184], [331].
Spercheios [206], [279] ff., [287], [417], [419].
spoils [340] f.
stages in history of heroic poetry [94] ff.
Starkaðr [77], [36], [92] f.
Stesichoros [171], [239] f., [266], [310].
Strassburg, battle of [340], [349].
succession [356].
suitors of Penelope [300] f., [363].
Sunilda [10], [160] f. (cf. Svanhildr).
supernatural beings [114] ff., [250] ff.
supernatural properties [128] f., [262].
Svanhildr [14], [16], [37], [157] (cf. Sunilda).
Swedes (Sweon, Svíar) [2], [15], [20], [31], [153] f., [367] ff., [399].
Tacitus [78], [349], [368] f., [413].
Tchakaray (Zakar) [188] f.
Telemachos [242] f.
Tell-el-Amarna [188], [192], [455].
Thebais [171].
Theodberht [23] f., [462].
Theodric [3], [19], [23], [25], [29] ff, [154] f., [373], [461] (cf. Dietrich von Bern).
Thersites [228].
Theseus [266].
Thessaly [232], [269] ff.
Thetis [264], [418] f.
Thiðreks Saga af Bern [9], [57], [134], [138] f., [145] f.
Thióðolfr [15], [91].
Thor [11], [253], [394] ff., [404].
Thórgerðr Hölgabrúðr [252], [401] f.
Thorkillus [258] f.
Thraco-Phrygian peoples [178] f., [190], [457] f.

Thucydides [286], [293], [308] ff.
Tiryns [452], [454].
tragic poets [171] f.
tribal heroes [267] ff.
Troy (Hissarlik) [200], [294] f., [309].
Tyrtaios [226], [331].
Uffo [17], [61].
Unferth [159], [347].
Upsala [154], [206], [368], [377], [399] f., [407].
Valhalla (Valhöll) [254], [396] ff., [410] ff.
Valkyries [254], [397], [411] f.
Vandals [31], [86], [115], [369], [371], [445], [460].
Vellekla [16], [254].
Venantius Fortunatus [85].
vengeance [344] f., [353].
Vidigoia [27], [62] (cf. Widia).
Viking Age [25], [90] ff., [100], [251] ff., [342], [404], [406] f.
Virgil [74] ff.
Völsunga Saga [16], [145] ff., [164], [251].
Völundarkviða [12], [132], [134] f.
Völuspá 11, [229].
Waldhere (Waltharius) [2], [6], [38] f., [57] f., [137] ff., [151] f., [161] f., [333], [341], [376] f.

Waltharius (see Waldhere).
Wanderer (poem) [3], [92], [350].
Warni [97] f.
Warrior Vase [185], [191], [451] f.
Weland [3], [9], [12], [132] ff.
Welsh heroic poetry [105] ff.
Weoxtan [20], [159], [329] f., [340], [347], [350].
wergelds [345], [352], [354], [365].
Widia [27], [132], [135] (cf. Vidigoia, Witege, Wudga).
Widsith [2], [20] f., [26], [56], [81], [87] f.
Widsith (name) [43] f.
Wiglaf [159], [328] f., [349].
Willebrord [259].
Witege [8] f., [19], [27], [31], [132], [135] (cf. Widia).
Woden (Wodan) [115], [405], [408] ff. (cf. Othin).
Wolfdietrich [8], [23], [155].
women in the Heroic Age [337] f., [372].
Worms [6] f., [146].
writing [211] ff.
Wudga [19] f., [27], [331] (cf. Widia).
Xanten [7], [31].
Xanthos [437] f., [467].
Ynglinga Saga [16], [367], [397], [399].
Yngvi [367], [405].
Zakar (see Tchakaray).
Zeus [416] ff.
Zeus Agamemnon [381].

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