[Aage], Danish ballad, related to Helgi and Sigrun, [144];
cf. York Powell, C.P.B. i. 502, and Grimm Centenary Papers (1886), p. 47
Achilles, [12], [13], [19], [35], [39], [67]
Aeneid, [18], [22], [334], [349]
Alboin the Lombard (O.E. Ælfwine, see [Davenant]), [23], [66], [69], [82] n, [189]
Alexander the Great, in old French poetry, [27];
his Epistle; (Anglo-Saxon version), [329]
[Aliscans], chanson de geste of the cycle of William of Orange, [296]
Alvíssmál, in 'Elder Edda,' [112]
Amadis of Gaul, a formal hero, [175], [203], [222]
Ammius (O.N. Hamðer): see [Hamðismál]
Andreas, old English poem on the legend of St. Andrew, [28], [50], [90], [329]
Andvari, [115]
Angantyr, the Waking of, poem in Hervarar Saga, [48], [70], [73], [78], [112], [129] n
Apollonius of Tyre, in Anglo-Saxon, [329]
Ari Thorgilsson, called the Wise (Ari Fróði, a.d. 1067-1148),
his Landnámabók and Konunga Æfi, [248];
Ynglinga Saga, [279]
Ariosto, [30], [31], [40], [323]
Aristotle on the dramatic element in epic, [17] sq.;
his summary of the Odyssey, [36], [74], [120], [139], [159] sq.
Arnaldos, romance del Conde, Spanish ballad, [327]
Arni, Bishop of Skalholt (ob. 1298), his Life (Arna Saga), [268]
Arni Beiskr (the Bitter), murderer of Snorri Sturluson, his death at Flugumyri, [263]
Aron Hjörleifsson (Arons Saga), a friend of Bishop Gudmund, [225], [257], [381] sq.
Asbjörnsen, P. Chr., [170] n
Asdis, Grettir's mother, [216] n
Askel: see [Reykdæla Saga]
Atlakviða, the Lay of Attila, [146] sq.: see [Attila]
Atlamál, the Greenland Poem of Attila, [92], [137], [146]-156: see [Attila]
Atli and Rimgerd, Contention of, in 'Elder Edda,' [113] sq.
[Atli] in Grettis Saga, his dying speech, [218]
in Hávarðar Saga, [227]
[Attila] (O.E. Ætla, O.N. Atli), the Hun, adopted as a German hero in epic tradition, [22];
different views of him in epic, [24];
in Waltharius, [84];
in Waldere, [86];
in the 'Elder Edda,' [80], [83], [105] sq., [110], [137], [149] sq.
Aucassin et Nicolette, [312], [327]
Audoin the Lombard (O.E. Eadwine), father of Alboin, [67]
Aymon, Four Sons of, i.e. Renaus de Montauban (chanson de geste), [313], [387]
Balder, death of, [43], [78], [112]
[Bandamanna] Saga, 'The Confederates,' [187], [226], [229]-234
Beatrice the Duchess, wife of Begon de Belin, mother of Gerin and Hernaudin, [307] sq.
Begon de Belin, brother of Garin le Loherain, q.v.
Benoit de Sainte More, his Roman de Troie, [330] sq., [334]
[Beowulf], [69], [88] sq., [110], [136], [145], [158]-175, [290]
and the Odyssey, [10]
Beowulf and the Hêliand, [28]
Bergthora, Njal's wife, [190], [220] sq.
Bernier: see [Raoul de Cambrai]
Béroul: see [Tristram]
Bevis, Sir, [388]
Biarkamál, [78]
Bjargey: see [Hávarðar Saga]
Bjorn, in Njála, and his wife, [228]-229
[Blethericus], a Welsh author, [348]
[Boccaccio], his relation to the French Romantic School, and to Chaucer, [363]-370
Bodvild, [95]
Boethius On the Consolation of Philosophy, a favourite book, [46]
Bolli, Gudrun's husband (Laxdæla Saga), [191], [207], [223], [376] sq.;
kills Kjartan, [242]
Bolli the younger, son of Bolli and Gudrun, [223]-224
Bossu, on the Epic Poem, his opinion of Phaeacia, [32], [40] n
Bradley, Mr. Henry, on the first Riddle in the Exeter Book, [135] (Academy, March 24, 1888, p. 198)
Bréri, cited by Thomas as his authority for the story of Tristram: see [Blethericus]
Brink, Dr. Bernhard Ten, some time Professor at Strassburg, [145], [290]
Broceliande visited by Wace, [26], [171]
Brunanburh, poem of the battle of, [76]
[Brynhild], sister of Attila, wife of Gunnar the Niblung, passim
long Lay of, in the 'Elder Edda' (al. Sigurðarkviða in Skamma), [83], [100] sq.
Hell-ride of, [102]
short Lay of (fragment), [103], [256]
lost poem concerning, paraphrased in Volsunga Saga, [71]
Danish ballad of: see [Sivard]
Bugge, Dr. Sophus, sometime Professor in Christiania, [77] n, [87] n, [137] n
Byrhtnoth: see [Maldon]
C.P.B., i.e. [Corpus Poeticum Boreale], q.v.
Campbell, J.F., of Islay, [170] n, [340]
Casket of whalebone (the Franks casket), in the British Museum, subjects represented on it, [48];
runic inscriptions, [49] (cf. Napier, in An English Miscellany, Oxford 1901)
Charles the Great, Roman Emperor (Charlemagne), different views of him in French Epic, [24];
in Huon de Bordeaux [314] sq.;
history of, in Norwegian (Karlamagnus Saga), [278];
in Spanish (chap-book), [297] n: see [Pèlerinage de Charlemagne]
Charlot: see [Huon de Bordeaux]
[Charroi] de Nismes, chanson de geste of the cycle of William of Orange, quoted, [312]
[Chaucer], [328], [332] n;
his relation to the French Romantic School, and to Boccaccio, [363]-370
[Chrestien] de Troyes, [323], [344]
his works,
Tristan (lost), [344];
Erec (Geraint and Enid), [6], [332], [355] sq.;
Conte du Graal (Perceval), [327];
Cliges, [333], [357] sq., [387];
Chevalier de la Charrette (Lancelot), [341], [357], [387];
Yvain (Chevalier au Lion), [352] sq., [386] sq.
his influence on the author of Flamenca, [359] sq.
Codex Regius (2365, 4to), in the King's Library, Copenhagen: see [ Edda, 'the Elder']
Comédie Humaine, la, [188]
Connla (the story of the fairy-bride): see [Guingamor]
Contract, Social, in Iceland, [59]
[Coronemenz] Looïs, chanson de geste of the cycle of William of Orange, quoted, [311]
[Corpus] Poeticum Boreale, ed. G. Vigfusson and F. York Powell, Oxford, 1883, passim
Corsolt, a pagan, [311]
Cressida, in Roman de Troie, [330];
the story treated in different ways by [Boccaccio] and [Chaucer], q.v.
Cynewulf, the poet, [51]
Cynewulf and Cyneheard (English Chronicle, a.d. 755), [5], [82] n
Dag, brother of Sigrun, [72]
Dandie Dinmont, [201]
Dante, [31];
his reference to William of Orange, [296]
Dart, Song of the (Darraðarlióð, Gray's 'Fatal Sisters'), [78]
[Davenant], Sir William, on the heroic poem (Preface to Gondibert), quoted, [30];
author of a tragedy, 'Albovine King of the Lombards,' [67]
Deor's Lament, old English poem, [76], [115], [134]
Drangey, island in Eyjafirth, north of Iceland, Grettir's refuge, [196]
Dryden and the heroic ideal, [30]
Du Bartas, [31]
Edda, a handbook of the Art of Poetry, by Snorri Sturluson, [42], [138], [181]
'[Edda],' 'the Elder,' 'the Poetic,' 'of Sæmund the Wise' (Codex Regius), [77], [93], [156] passim
Egil the Bowman, Weland's brother, represented on the Franks casket (Ægili), [48]
Egil Skallagrimsson, [192], [215], [220]
Einar Thorgilsson: see [Sturla of Hvamm]
Ekkehard, Dean of St. Gall, author of Waltharius, [84]
Elene, by Cynewulf, an old English poem on the legend of St. Helen (the Invention of the Cross), [50], [90], [329]
Eneas, Roman d', [386]
Enid: see [Chrestien de Troyes]
Erec: see [Chrestien de Troyes]
Eric the Red, his Saga in Hauk's book, [47]
Ermanaric (O.E. Eormenríc, O.N. Jörmunrekr), [22];
killed by the brothers of Suanihilda, [66]: see [Hamðismál]
Erp: see [Hamðismál]
Exodus, old English poem of, [28], [90]
Eyjolf Karsson, a friend of Bishop Gudmund, [257], [381], sq.
Eyjolf Thorsteinsson: see [Gizur]
[Eyrbyggja] Saga, the story of the men of Eyre, [187] sq., [201], [227], [253]
Færeyinga Saga, the story of the men of the Faroes (Thrond of Gata and Sigmund Brestisson), [206], [245]
Faroese ballads, [181], [283]
Fielding, Henry, [266]
Fierabras, [388]
Finn: see [Finnesburh]
[Finnesburh], old English poem (fragment), published by Hickes from a Lambeth MS., now mislaid, [81] sq., [265]
episode in Beowulf, giving more of the story, [81] sq.
Fiölsvinnsmál see [Svipdag]
Flamenca, a Provençal romance, by a follower of Chrestien de Troyes, in the spirit of Ovid, [359]-362;
romances named in, [360], [384]-387
Flóamanna Saga, the story of the people of Floi, [259]
Flores et Blanchefleur, romance, referred to in Flamenca, [361];
translated by Boccaccio (Filocolo), [364]
Flosi the Burner, in Njála, [218], [219], [190], [191], [219] sq.
Flugumyri, a homestead in Northern Iceland (Skagafjord), Earl Gizur's house, burned October 1253, the story as given by Sturla, [259]-264
Fóstbræðra Saga (the story of the two sworn brethren, Thorgeir and Thormod) [38] n, [47];
in Hauk's book, [187], [194], [196];
euphuistic interpolations in, [275] sq.
[Frey], poem of his wooing of Gerd (Skirnismál), in the 'Poetic Edda,' [77], [94], [114]
Frithiof the Bold, a romantic Saga, [247], [277], [280] sq.
Froda (Fróðá), homestead in Olafsvík, near the end of Snæfellsnes, Western Iceland, a haunted house, Eyrbyggja Saga, [208]
[Froda] (Frotho in Saxo Grammaticus), his story alluded to in Beowulf, [69], [72], [82] n, [163], [373] sq.
Froissart and the courteous ideal, [328]
Fromont, the adversary in the story of [Garin le Loherain], q.v.
Galopin the Prodigal, in the story of Garin le Loherain, [310]
Gareth, in Malory's Morte d'Arthur, original of the Red Cross Knight in the Faery Queene, [343]
[Garin] le Loherain (chanson de geste), [53] n, [300]-309
Gawain killed dragons, [168]: see [Walewein]
Gawain and the Green Knight, alliterative poem, [180]
Gay Goshawk, ballad of the, [357]
Genesis, old English poem of, [90], [136]
Geraint, Welsh story, [355]
Gerd: see [Frey]
Germania of Tacitus, [46]
Gísla Saga, the story of Gisli the Outlaw, [187], [196] sq., [207], [225];
its relations to the heroic poetry, [210]
Giuki (Lat. Gibicho, O.E. Gifica), father of [Gunnar], [Hogni], [Gothorm], and [Gudrun], q.v.
[Gizur] Thorvaldsson, the earl, at Flugumyri, [258], [259]-264
Glam (Grettis Saga), [172], [196]
[Glum] (Víga-Glúms Saga), [193] sq., [225]
and Raoul de Cambrai, [299]
Gollancz, Mr., [135] (see Academy, Dec. 23, 1893, p. 572)
[Gothorm], [101]
Gray, his translations from the Icelandic, [78], [157] n
Gregory (St.) the Great, de Cura Pastorali, studied in Iceland, [59]
Grendel, [165]: see [Beowulf]
Grettis Saga, the story of Grettir the Strong, [172], [187], [195] sq., [216] n, [218], [226]
Grimhild, mother of Gudrun, [110]
Grimild's Revenge, Danish ballad (Grimilds Hævn), [105], [149]
Grimm, [136] n;
story of the Golden Bird, [340]
Wilhelm, Deutsche Heldensage, [79]
Grímnismál, in 'Elder Edda,' [112]
Gripir, Prophecy of (Grípisspá) in the 'Elder Edda,' a summary of the Volsung story, [94]
Groa, wife of Earl [Gizur], q.v.
Grógaldr: see [Svipdag]
Grottasöngr (Song of the Magic Mill), [90]
Gudmund Arason, Bishop of Hólar, [170], [256], [381]
Gudmund, son of Granmar: see [Sinfiotli]
Gudmund the Mighty (Guðmundr inn Riki), in Ljósvetninga and other Sagas, [188], [225]
Gudny, wife of [Sturla of Hvamm], q.v.
[Gudrun] (O.N. Guðrún), daughter of Giuki, sister of Gunnar and Hogni, wife of Sigurd, [23], [71], [101], [149] sq.
and Theodoric, the Old Lay of Gudrun (Guðrúnarkviða in forna), [103], [109]
Lay of (Guðrúnarkviða), [111]
Lament of, or Chain of Woe (Tregrof Guðrúnar), [111], [215]
Ordeal of, [111]
daughter of Osvifr (Laxdæla Saga), [191], [209], [222]-224
[Guingamor], Lay of, by Marie de France, [337]-340
Guinglain, romance, by Renaud de Beaujeu: see [Libeaux Desconus]
[Gundaharius] (Gundicarius), the Burgundian (O.E. Gúðhere, O.N. Gunnarr; Gunther in the Nibelungenlied, etc.), [22]: see [Gunnar], [Gunther]
Gunnar of Lithend (Hlíðarendi), in Njáls Saga, [190];
his death, [214]
[Gunnar], son of Giuki, brother of Gudrun, [101] sq., [168] sq.: see [Gundaharius], [Gunther]
[Gunnlaug] the Poet, called Wormtongue, his story (Gunnlaugs Saga Ormstungu), [207], [281]
[Gunther] (Guntharius, son of Gibicho) in Waltharius, [84] sq.;
in Waldere, [100]: see [Gundaharius], [Gunnar]
Hacon, King of Norway (a.d. 1217-1263): see [Hákonar Saga];
his taste for French romances, [278]
Hadubrand, son of Hildebrand, [81]
Hagen (Hagano), in Waltharius, [84] sq.
[Hagen], in Waldere (Hagena), [86], [239]
in [Sivard], q.v.: see [Hogni]
[Hákonar] Saga, the Life of Hacon, Hacon's son, King of Norway (ob. 1263), written by Sturla, contrasted with his history of Iceland, [267] sq.
Halfs Saga, [280]
Hall, son of Earl Gizur, [259]
Hama, [163]
Hamlet in Saxo, [70]
[Hamðismál] ('Poetic Edda'), Lay of the death of Ermanaric, [66], [70]-71, [109], [140]
Harald, king of Norway (Fairhair), [58];
in Egils Saga, [192]
king of Norway (Hardrada), killed dragons, [168];
his Saga referred to (story of Hreidar the Simple), [310];
(Varangian custom), [329] n
Harbarzlióð: see [Thor]
Harðar Saga ok Holmverja, the story of Hord and the men of the island, [212] n
Hauk's Book, an Icelandic gentleman's select library in the fourteenth century, [47] sq. (Hauksbók, ed. Finnur Jónsson, 1892-1896)
Hávamál in 'Poetic Edda,' a gnomic miscellany, [77]
[Hávarðar] Saga Isfirðings, the story of Howard of Icefirth, [199], [216] sq., [227]
Hearne, Thomas, [78]
Hedin, brother of Helgi, Hiorvard's son, [99]
[Heiðarvíga] Saga, the story of the battle on the Heath (connected with Eyrbyggja Saga), [209]: see [Víga-Styrr]
Heiðreks Saga: see [Hervarar Saga]
Heimskringla, Snorri's Lives of the Kings of Norway, abridged, [248]
Helgi and Kara, [98]
[Helgi], Hiorvard's son, and Swava, [97] sq., [113]
Helgi Hundingsbane and Sigrun, [72], [93] n, [95] sq., [239]
Hêliand, old Saxon poem on the Gospel history, using the forms of German heroic poetry, [27], [90], [204]
Hengest: see [Finnesburh]
Heremod,
[162]
Herkja, [111]
Hermes, in the Homeric hymn, [43]
[Hervarar] Saga ok Heiðreks Konungs (Heiðreks Saga), one of the romantic mythical Sagas in Hauk's book, [48];
contains the poems of the cycle of Angantyr, [78], [280]
Hervor, daughter of Angantyr, [70], [73], [112], [208]
Heusler, Dr. Andreas, Professor in Berlin, [100] n
Hialli, [151]
Hickes, George, D.D., [73] n, [78]
Hildebrand, Lay of, [76], [79], [81], [87] n, [91]
Hildeburg: see [Finnesburh]
Hildegund (Hildegyth), [84] sq.: see [Walter]
Hnæf: see [Finnesburh]
Hobs, Mr. (i.e. Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury), [31]
Hodbrodd, in story of Helgi and Sigrun, [72], [96]
Hogni, father of Sigrun, [72], [96]
[Hogni], son of Giuki, brother of Gunnar, Gothorm, and Gudrun, [101], [151] sq.: see [Hagen]
Homeric analogies in medieval literature, [9] sq.
Hrafn Sveinbjarnarson, a friend of Bishop Gudmund, [257];
Hrafns Saga quoted, [38] n
Hrafn: see [Gunnlaug]
Hrafnkels Saga Freysgoða, the story of Hrafnkel, Frey's Priest, [187], [198]
Hrefna, Kjartan's wife, [223]
Hreidar the Simple, an unpromising hero, in Haralds Saga Harðráða, [310]
Hrolf Kraki (Hroðulf in Beowulf), [166], [280]
Hromund Greipsson, Saga of, [99]
Hrothgar, [10], [166].
Hunding, [95]
Hunferth, [10], [166]
[Huon] de Bordeaux (chanson de geste), epic and romance combined inartistically in, [37], [53], [314]-317
Hurd's Letters on Chivalry and Romance, [30]
Hygelac, [161] sq.: see [Beowulf]
Hymiskviða: see [Thor]
Ibsen, Henrik, his Hærmændene paa Helgeland (Warriors in Helgeland), a drama founded on the Volsung story, its relation to Laxdæla Saga, [209]
his Kongsemnerne (Rival Kings, Hacon and Skule), [268]
Ider, romance, [331] sq., [347] n
Iliad, [11] sq., [18], [38] sq., [52], [162] sq., [348], [352] n
Ingeld: see [Froda]
Ingibjorg, daughter of Sturla, her wedding at Flugumyri, [259] sq.
Intelligenza, L', [386] n
Jehoram, son of Ahab, in the famine of Samaria, [239]
Johnson, Dr., [9], [244]
[Joinville], Jean de, Seneschal of Champagne, his Life of St. Louis compared with Icelandic prose history, [269] sq.
Jón Arason the poet, Bishop of Hólar, the last Catholic Bishop in Iceland, beheaded by Reformers, 7th November 1550, a notable character, [268]
Jordanes, historian of the Goths, his version of the story of Ermanaric, its relation to Hamðismál, [65]
Judith, old English poem of, [28], [29], [90]
Julian, the Emperor, his opinion of German songs, [65]
Kara, [98] sq.
Kari, in Njála, [206]
and Bjorn, [228]-229
Karl Jónsson, Abbot of Thingeyri in Iceland, author of Sverris Saga, [249]
Kjartan, son of Olaf the Peacock (Laxdæla Saga), [13], [191], [204], [207], [375]
his death, [240] sq.
Königskinder, die, German ballad, [327]
Kormaks Saga, [129] n, [281]
Lancelot, the French prose romance, [335]
Landnámabók, in Hauk's book, [47]
Laurence, Bishop of Hólar (ob. 1331), his Life (Laurentius Saga), [268]
[Laxdæla] Saga, the story of Laxdale (the Lovers of the Gudrun), [185], [190], [240] sq., [375];
a new version of the Niblung story, [209] sq., [222] sq., [281]
Leconte de Lisle, L'Epée d'Angantyr, [73] n
Lessing's Laocoon, [237]
[Libeaux] Desconus, romance in different versions—French, by Renaud de Beaujeu (Guinglain), [337], [343] sq., [387];
English, [337], [343];
Italian (Carduino), [337], [343]
Ljósvetninga Saga, story of the House of Ljósavatn, [188] sq.
Lokasenna (the Railing of Loki), [41], [77], [113]
Longnon, Auguste, [314] n
Louis IX., king of France (St. Louis): see [Joinville]
Lusiad, the, a patriotic epic, unlike the poetry of the 'heroic age,' [22]
Macrobius, [47], [333]
[Maldon], poem of the battle of (a.d. 991), [69], [88], [95] n, [134], [205], [244];
compared with the Iliad, [11];
compared with Roland, [51], [54] sq., [294]
[Malory], Sir Thomas, his Morte d'Arthur, [215], [307]
Mantrible, Bridge of the, [388]
Marie de France, her Lays translated into Norwegian (Strengleikar), [278];
Guingamor criticised, [337]-340
Marino, [31]
Martianus Capella, de Nuptiis Philologiae, studied in the Middle Ages, [47]
Medea, [334], [347] sq.
Menglad, Rescue of, [78], [114]: see [Svipdag]
Mephistopheles in Thessaly, [10]
Meyer, Paul, [290] n, [359] n, [386]
Milan, Siege of, [388]
Mimming, the sword of Weland, [86]
Morris, William, [205], [282], [334]
Mort Arthure, alliterative poem, [180]
Mort Artus, French prose romance, [335]
Morte d'Arthur: see [Malory]
Nibelungenlied, [105], [120], [149], [179]
Niblung story, its relation to historical fact, [22] sq.: see [Gunnar], [Hogni], [Gudrun], [Laxdæla Saga]
Nidad, [95]
Njal, story of (Njála), [8], [13], [60], [185], [207], [219]-221
Oberon; see [Huon de Bordeaux]
Odd, Arrow (Örvar-Oddr), [73]
Oddrun, sister of Brynhild and Attila, [102]
Lament of (Oddrúnargrátr), in the 'Elder Edda,' [103], [107] sq., [151] sq.
Odd Ufeigsson: see [Bandamanna Saga]
Odoacer, referred to in Lay of Hildebrand, [81]
Odysseus, [7], [9], [32] sq., [35], [71]
Odyssey, the, [10], [163], [171];
Aristotle's summary of, [18];
romance in, [32] sq.
Olaf Tryggvason, king of Norway, [205], [375] sq.
Olkofra Þáttr, the story of Alecap, related to Bandamanna Saga, [226]
Ossian, in the land of youth: see [Guingamor]
Ovid in the Middle Ages, [47], [346], 412;
Ovidius Epistolarum studied in Iceland, [59]
Ovid's story of Medea, translated in the Roman de Troie, [334] sq., [348] sq.;
Heroides became the 'Saints' Legend of Cupid,' [347]
Paris, Gaston, [290], [291], [331], [337], [343], [345], [348] n, [387]
Paulus Diaconus, heroic stories in the Lombard history, [66] sq.
Peer Gynt, [170]
[Pèlerinage] de Charlemagne (chanson de geste), [24], [53], [329]
Percy, Thomas, D.D., Five Pieces of Runic Poetry, [73] n, [141] n
Phaeacia, Odysseus in, Bossu's criticism, [31]
Pindar, his treatment of myths, [43]
Poitiers, William IX., Count of, his poem on setting out for the Crusade, [317]
Powell, F. York, [66]: see [Aage]
[Prise] d'Orange, chanson de geste of the cycle of William of Orange, in substance a romance of adventure, [313]
Queste del St. Graal, French prose romance, a contrast to the style of Chrestien de Troyes, [327], [335]
Ragnar Lodbrok, his Death-Song (Krákumál), [140], [217], [295]
[Rainouart], the gigantic ally of William of Orange, [296], [311];
their names associated by Dante (Par. xviii. 46), ibid.
[Raoul] de Cambrai (chanson de geste), [291] n, [298]-300, [309]
Rastignac, Eugène de, [188]
[Reykdæla] Saga, the story of Vemund, Askel, and Skuta son of Askel, connected with the story of Glum, [194], [201]
Rigaut, son of Hervi the Villain, in the story of Garin le Loherain, [310]
Rimgerd the Giantess: see [Atli]
Rímur, Icelandic rhyming romances, [181], [283]
Roland, Chanson de, [9], [24], [83], [287], [293]-295, [308];
compared with Byrhtnoth (Maldon), [54] sq.;
with an incident in Njála, [265]
Roman de la Rose, of Guillaume de Lorris, [345], [348], [352], [359]
Rood, Dream of the, old English poem, [134]
Rosamund and Alboin in the Lombard history, [23], [67]
Rosmunda, a tragedy, by Rucellai, [67]
Rou, Roman de, the author's visit to Broceliande, [26]
Sam (Sámr), Gunnar's dog, [214]
Sarpedon's address to Glaucus, [9], [11]
Sarus and Ammius (Sorli and Hamther), brothers of Suanihilda (Jordanes), [66]: see [Hamðismál]
Saxo Grammaticus, [69], [79], [105], [149], [181], [374]
Scotland, Complaynt of, romances named in, [387]-389
Scottish Field, alliterative poem on Flodden, [179] sq.
Shakespeare, his treatment of popular tales, [36] sq.
Sibyl's Prophecy: see [Volospá]
Sidney, Sir Philip, [99], [368]
Sievers, Dr. Eduard, Professor in Leipzig, [136] n, [169] n
Sigmund Brestisson, in Færeyinga Saga, [206], [245], [283]
Sigmund, father of Sinfiotli, Helgi, and Sigurd, [95], [110]
Signild: see [Sivard]
Sigrdrifa, [115]
Sigrun: see [Helgi]
Sigurd, the Volsung (O.N. Sigurðr), [22], [71], [100] sq., [129], [133]
fragmentary Lay of (Brot af Sigurðarkviðu), [103]
Lay of: see [Brynhild]
[Sinfiotli], debate of, and Gudmund, [96]
[Sivard] og Brynild, Danish ballad, translated, [127]-129
[Skallagrim], how he told the truth to King Harald, [192]
Skarphedinn, son of Njal, [190], [220] sq., [244], [265]
Skirnir: see [Frey]
Skule, Duke, the rival of Hacon, [267]
Skuta: see [Reykdæla Saga]
Snorri Sturluson (a.d. 1178-1241), author of the Edda, [42];
and of the Lives of the Kings of Norway, [248];
his murder avenged at Flugumyri, [263]
Snorri the Priest (Snorri Goði), in Eyrbyggja and other Sagas, [188], [213], [253]
Sonatorrek (the Sons' Loss), poem by Egil Skallagrimsson, [215]
Sorli: see [Hamðismál]
Spenser, [343]
Starkad, [166], [374]
Stephens, George, sometime Professor in Copenhagen, [78]
Stevenson, R.L., Catriona, [170] n
[Sturla] of Hvamm (Hvamm-Sturla), founder of the house of the Sturlungs, his life (Sturlu Saga) [253]-256
Sturla (c. a.d. 1214-1284), son of Thord, and grandson of Hvamm-Sturla, nephew of Snorri, author of [Sturlunga Saga] (q.v.) and of [Hákonar Saga] (q.v.) [61], [251], [259]
[Sturlunga] Saga (more accurately Islendinga Saga), of Sturla, Thord's son, a history of the author's own times, using the forms of the heroic Sagas, [61], [246] sq., [249] sq.
Suanihilda: see [Swanhild]
Svarfdæla Saga, the story of the men of Swarfdale (Svarfaðardalr), [219]
[Sveidal], Ungen, Danish ballad, on the story of Svipdag and Menglad, [114], [126]
Sverre, king of Norway (ob. 1202), his Life (Sverris Saga) written by Abbot Karl Jónsson at the king's dictation, [249];
quotes a Volsung poem, [278]
[Svipdag] and Menglad, old Northern poems of, [78], [114] sq.: see [Sveidal]
[Swanhild] (O.N. Svanhildr), daughter of Sigurd and Gudrun, her cruel death; the vengeance on Ermanaric known to Jordanes in the sixth century, [65]: see [Hamðismál]
Tasso, [18], [21];
his critical essays on heroic poetry, [30]
Tegnér, Esaias, [141];
his Frithiofs Saga, [277]
Tennyson, Enid, [355]
Theodoric (O.N. Þióðrekr), a hero of Teutonic epic in different dialects, [22], [81], [87];
fragment of Swedish poem on, inscription on stone at Rök, [78]: see [Gudrun]
Thersites, [243]
Thidrandi, whom the goddesses slew, [208]
Þidreks Saga (thirteenth century), a Norwegian compilation from North German ballads on heroic subjects, [79], [121]
Thomas: see [Tristram]
[Thor], in old Northern literature, his Fishing for the World Serpent (Hymiskviða), [43], [77], [95];
the Winning of the Hammer (Þrymskviða), [43], [77], [81], [95]
Danish ballad of, [125]
the contention of, and Odin (Harbarzlióð), [77], [113]
Thorarin, in Eyrbyggja, the quiet man, [227]
Thorgils and Haflidi (Þorgils Saga ok Hafliða), [226], [238], [252] sq.
Thorkell Hake, in Ljósvetinga Saga, [225]
Thorolf Bægifot: see [Eyrbyggja]
Thorolf, Kveldulf's son: see [Skallagrim]
Þorsteins Saga Hvíta, the story of Thorstein the White, points of resemblance to Laxdæla and Gunnlaugs Saga, [281]
Þorsteins Saga Stangarhöggs (Thorstein Staffsmitten), a short story, [282]
Thrond of Gata (Færeyinga Saga), [245]
Þrymskviða: see [Thor]
Thrytho, [162]
Thurismund, son of Thurisvend, king of the Gepidae, killed by Alboin, [67]
Tirant lo Blanch (Tirant the White, Romance of), [38] n;
a moral work, [222]
Trissino, author of Italia liberata dai Goti, a correct epic poem, [30]
[Tristram] and Iseult, [336], Anglo-Norman poems, by Béroul and Thomas, [344];
of Chrestien (lost), ibid.
Troilus, [368] sq.
Troy, Destruction of, alliterative poem, [180]
Ufeig: see [Bandamanna Saga]
Uistean Mor mac Ghille Phadrig, [170]
Uspak: see [Bandamanna Saga]
Vafþrúðnismál, mythological poem in 'Elder Edda,' [77], [112], [115]
Vali: see [Bandamanna Saga]
Vápnfirðinga Saga, the story of Vopnafjord, [193], [226]
Vatnsdæla Saga, story of the House of Vatnsdal, [189]
Vemund: see [Reykdæla Saga]
Vergi, la Chastelaine de, a short tragic story, [362] sq.
Víga-Glúms Saga, [193]: see [Glum]
[Víga-Styrr]: see [Heiðarvíga Saga]
N.B.—The story referred to in the text is preserved in Jón Olafsson's recollection of the leaves of the MS. which were lost in the fire of 1728 (Islendinga Sögur, 1847, ii. p. 296). It is not given in Mr. William Morris's translation of the extant portion of the Saga, appended to his Eyrbyggja.
Vigfusson, Gudbrand, [77], [280] n, [283] n
Viglund, Story of, a romantic Saga, [278] sq.
Villehardouin, a contemporary of Snorri, [269]
[Volospá] (the Sibyl's Song of the Doom of the Gods), in the 'Poetic Edda,' [43], [77], [139];
another copy in Hauk's book, [47], [93]
Volsunga Saga, a prose paraphrase of old Northern poems, [71], [77], [79], [280]
Volsungs, Old Lay of the, [96]
Wade, Song of, fragment recently discovered, [180] (see Academy, Feb. 15, 1896)
Waldere, old English poem (fragment), [78], [86] sq., [116], [163]: see [Walter of Aquitaine]
[Walewein], Roman van, Dutch romance of Sir Gawain; the plot compared with the Gaelic story of Mac Iain Direach, [337], [340]-343
[Walter] of Aquitaine, [5], [78], [84] sq., [206]
Waltharius, Latin poem by Ekkehard, on the story of [Walter of Aquitaine], q.v.
Wanderer, the, old English poem, [134]
Ward, H.L.D., his Catalogue of MS. Romances in the British Museum, [282]
Wealhtheo, [166]
Weland, [338]
represented on the Franks casket in the British Museum, [48]
mentioned in Waldere, [87], [163]
Lay of, in 'Poetic Edda,' [77], [94]
Well at the World's End, [387]
Widia, Weland's son, [87], [163]
Widsith (the Traveller's Song), old English poem, [76], [115], [134]
Wiglaf, the 'loyal servitor' in Beowulf, [166]
William of Orange, old French epic hero, [296]: see [Coronemenz Looïs], [Charroi de Nismes], [Prise d'Orange], [Aliscans], [Rainouart]; cf. J. Bédier, Les Légendes épiques (1908)
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FOOTNOTES
[1] Johnson on the Epic Poem (Life of Milton).