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
Gudrun (O.N. Guðrún), daughter of Giuki, sister of Gunnar and Hogni,
wife of Sigurd, 23, 71, 101, 149 _sq._
and Theodoric, the _Old Lay of Gudrun_ (_Guðrúnarkviða in forna_),
103, 109
_Lay of_ (_Guðrúnarkviða_), 111
_Lament of_, or _Chain of Woe_ (_Tregrof Guðrúnar_), 111, 215
_Ordeal of_, 111
daughter of Osvifr (_Laxdæla Saga_), 191, 209, 222-224
_Guingamor, Lay of_, by Marie de France, 337-340
_Guinglain_, romance, by Renaud de Beaujeu: see _Libeaux Desconus_
Gundaharius (Gundicarius), the Burgundian (O.E. Gúðhere, O.N. Gunnarr;
Gunther in the _Nibelungenlied_, etc.), 22: see _Gunnar_, _Gunther_
Gunnar of Lithend (Hlíðarendi), in _Njáls Saga_, 190;
his death, 214
Gunnar, son of Giuki, brother of Gudrun, 101 _sq._, 168 _sq._: see
_Gundaharius_, _Gunther_
Gunnlaug the Poet, called Wormtongue, his story (_Gunnlaugs Saga
Ormstungu_), 207, 281
Gunther (Guntharius, son of Gibicho) in _Waltharius_, 84 _sq._;
in _Waldere_, 100: see _Gundaharius_, _Gunnar_
Hacon, King of Norway (A.D. 1217-1263): see _Hákonar Saga_;
his taste for French romances, 278
Hadubrand, son of Hildebrand, 81
Hagen (Hagano), in _Waltharius_, 84 _sq._
Hagen, in _Waldere_ (Hagena), 86, 239
in _Sivard_, _q.v._: see _Hogni_
_Hákonar Saga_, the _Life_ of Hacon, Hacon's son, King of Norway (_ob._
1263), written by Sturla, contrasted with his history of Iceland, 267
_sq._
_Halfs Saga_, 280
Hall, son of Earl Gizur, 259
Hama, 163
_Hamlet_ in Saxo, 70
_Hamðismál_ ('Poetic Edda'), Lay of the death of Ermanaric, 66, 70-71,
109, 140
Harald, king of Norway (Fairhair), 58;
in _Egils Saga_, 192
king of Norway (Hardrada), killed dragons, 168;
his Saga referred to (story of Hreidar the Simple), 310;
(Varangian custom), 329 n
_Harbarzlióð_: see _Thor_
_Harðar Saga ok Holmverja_, the story of Hord and the men of the
island, 212 n
Hauk's Book, an Icelandic gentleman's select library in the fourteenth
century, 47 _sq._ (_Hauksbók_, ed. Finnur Jónsson, 1892-1896)
_Hávamál_ in 'Poetic Edda,' a gnomic miscellany, 77
_Hávarðar Saga Isfirðings_, the story of Howard of Icefirth, 199, 216
_sq._, 227
Hearne, Thomas, 78
Hedin, brother of Helgi, Hiorvard's son, 99
_Heiðarvíga Saga_, the story of the battle on the Heath (connected with
_Eyrbyggja Saga_), 209: see _Víga-Styrr_
_Heiðreks Saga_: see _Hervarar Saga_
_Heimskringla_, Snorri's _Lives of the Kings of Norway_, abridged, 248
Helgi and Kara, 98
Helgi, Hiorvard's son, and Swava, 97 _sq._, 113
Helgi Hundingsbane and Sigrun, 72, 93 n, 95 _sq._, 239
_Hêliand_, old Saxon poem on the Gospel history, using the forms of
German heroic poetry, 27, 90, 204
Hengest: see _Finnesburh_
Heremod, 162
Herkja, 111
Hermes, in the Homeric hymn, 43
_Hervarar Saga ok Heiðreks Konungs_ (_Heiðreks Saga_), one of the
romantic mythical Sagas in Hauk's book, 48;
contains the poems of the cycle of Angantyr, 78, 280
Hervor, daughter of Angantyr, 70, 73, 112, 208
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