_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._