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
Heusler, Dr. Andreas, Professor in Berlin, 100 n
Hialli, 151
Hickes, George, D.D., 73 n, 78
_Hildebrand, Lay of_, 76, 79, 81, 87 n, 91
Hildeburg: see _Finnesburh_
Hildegund (Hildegyth), 84 _sq._: see _Walter_
Hnæf: see _Finnesburh_
Hobs, Mr. (_i.e._ Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury), 31
Hodbrodd, in story of Helgi and Sigrun, 72, 96
Hogni, father of Sigrun, 72, 96
Hogni, son of Giuki, brother of Gunnar, Gothorm, and Gudrun, 101, 151
_sq._: see _Hagen_
Homeric analogies in medieval literature, 9 _sq._
Hrafn Sveinbjarnarson, a friend of Bishop Gudmund, 257;
_Hrafns Saga_ quoted, 38 n
Hrafn: see _Gunnlaug_
_Hrafnkels Saga Freysgoða_, the story of Hrafnkel, Frey's Priest, 187, 198
Hrefna, Kjartan's wife, 223
Hreidar the Simple, an unpromising hero, in _Haralds Saga Harðráða_, 310
Hrolf Kraki (Hroðulf in _Beowulf_), 166, 280
_Hromund Greipsson_, Saga of, 99
Hrothgar, 10, 166.
Hunding, 95
Hunferth, 10, 166
_Huon de Bordeaux_ (_chanson de geste_), epic and romance combined
inartistically in, 37, 53, 314-317
Hurd's _Letters on Chivalry and Romance_, 30
Hygelac, 161 _sq._: see _Beowulf_
_Hymiskviða_: see _Thor_
Ibsen, Henrik, his _Hærmændene paa Helgeland_ (_Warriors in Helgeland_),
a drama founded on the Volsung story, its relation to _Laxdæla Saga_, 209
his _Kongsemnerne_ (_Rival Kings_, Hacon and Skule), 268
_Ider_, romance, 331 _sq._, 347 n
_Iliad_, 11 _sq._, 18, 38 _sq._, 52, 162 _sq._, 348, 352 n
Ingeld: see _Froda_
Ingibjorg, daughter of Sturla, her wedding at Flugumyri, 259 _sq._
_Intelligenza, L'_, 386 n
Jehoram, son of Ahab, in the famine of Samaria, 239
Johnson, Dr., 9, 244
Joinville, Jean de, Seneschal of Champagne, his _Life of St. Louis_
compared with Icelandic prose history, 269 _sq._
Jón Arason the poet, Bishop of Hólar, the last Catholic Bishop in
Iceland, beheaded by Reformers, 7th November 1550, a notable character,
268
Jordanes, historian of the Goths, his version of the story of
_Ermanaric_, its relation to _Hamðismál_, 65
_Judith_, old English poem of, 28, 29, 90
Julian, the Emperor, his opinion of German songs, 65
Kara, 98 _sq._
Kari, in _Njála_, 206
and Bjorn, 228-229
Karl Jónsson, Abbot of Thingeyri in Iceland, author of _Sverris Saga_, 249
Kjartan, son of Olaf the Peacock (_Laxdæla Saga_), 13, 191, 204, 207, 375
his death, 240 _sq._
_Königskinder, die_, German ballad, 327
_Kormaks Saga_, 129 n, 281
_Lancelot_, the French prose romance, 335
_Landnámabók_, in Hauk's book, 47
Laurence, Bishop of Hólar (_ob._ 1331), his _Life_ (_Laurentius Saga_), 268
_Laxdæla Saga_, the story of Laxdale (_the Lovers of the Gudrun_), 185,
190, 240 _sq._, 375;
a new version of the Niblung story, 209 _sq._, 222 _sq._, 281
Leconte de Lisle, _L'Epée d'Angantyr_, 73 n
Lessing's _Laocoon_, 237
_Libeaux Desconus_, romance in different versions--French, by Renaud
de Beaujeu (_Guinglain_), 337, 343 _sq._, 387;
English, 337, 343;
Italian (_Carduino_), 337, 343
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