_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_