Epic and Romance: Essays on Medieval LiteratureKer, W. P. (William Paton)
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Epic and Romance: Essays on Medieval Literature
Ker, W. P. (William Paton)
Epic poetry -- History and criticism; Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism; Romances -- History and criticism
_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._
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