giantis that eit quyk men, on fut by fortht as i culd found, vallace, the bruce, ypomedon, the tail of the three futtit dug of norrouay, the tayl quhou Hercules sleu the serpent hidra that hed vij heydis, the tail quhou the king of est mure land mareit the kyngis dochtir of vest mure land, Skail gillenderson the kyngis sone of skellye, the tail of the four sonnis of aymon, the tail of the brig of the mantribil, the tail of syr euan, arthour's knycht, rauf col3ear, the seige of millan, gauen and gollogras, lancelot du lac, Arthour knycht he raid on nycht vitht gyltin spur and candil lycht, the tail of floremond of albanye that sleu the dragon be the see, the tail of syr valtir the bald leslye, the tail of the pure tynt, claryades and maliades, Arthour of litil bertang3e, robene hude and litil ihone, the meruellis of mandiueil, the tayl of the 3ong tamlene and of the bald braband, the ryng of the roy Robert, syr egeir and syr gryme, beuis of southamtoun, the goldin targe, the paleis of honour, the tayl quhou acteon vas transformit in ane hart and syne slane be his auen doggis, the tayl of Pirramus and tesbe, the tail of the amours of leander and hero, the tail how Iupiter transformit his deir love yo in ane cou, the tail quhou that iason van the goldin fleice, Opheus kyng of portingal, the tail of the goldin appil, the tail of the thre veird systirs, the tail quhou that dedalus maid the laborynth to keip the monstir minotaurus, the tail quhou kyng midas gat tua asse luggis on his hede because of his auereis. 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_