INDEX

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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