Note 69 — Chapter IV · THE ORIGIN AND HISTORY OF THE HEROIC POEMS.
Reading edition
These lists are perhaps derived in part from mnemonic catalogues—'inventories' of the stories known to the minstrels who composed them. Metrical catalogues of this kind are said to be in use among Servian minstrels at the present day; cf. Krauss, Slavische Volkforschungen, p. 186 ff., where a specimen is given.