_Ljósvetninga Saga_, story of the House of Ljósavatn, 188 _sq._ _Lokasenna_ (the Railing of Loki), 41, 77, 113 Longnon, Auguste, 314 n Louis IX., king of France (St. Louis): see _Joinville_ _Lusiad_, the, a patriotic epic, unlike the poetry of the 'heroic age,' 22 Macrobius, 47, 333 _Maldon_, poem of the battle of (A.D. 991), 69, 88, 95 n, 134, 205, 244; compared with the _Iliad_, 11; compared with _Roland_, 51, 54 _sq._, 294 Malory, Sir Thomas, his _Morte d'Arthur_, 215, 307 _Mantrible, Bridge of the_, 388 Marie de France, her _Lays_ translated into Norwegian (_Strengleikar_), 278; _Guingamor_ criticised, 337-340 Marino, 31 Martianus Capella, _de Nuptiis Philologiae_, studied in the Middle Ages, 47 Medea, 334, 347 _sq._ _Menglad, Rescue of_, 78, 114: see _Svipdag_ Mephistopheles in Thessaly, 10 Meyer, Paul, 290 n, 359 n, 386 _Milan, Siege of_, 388 Mimming, the sword of Weland, 86 Morris, William, 205, 282, 334 _Mort Arthure_, alliterative poem, 180 _Mort Artus_, French prose romance, 335 _Morte d'Arthur_: see _Malory_ _Nibelungenlied_, 105, 120, 149, 179 Niblung story, its relation to historical fact, 22 _sq._: see _Gunnar_, _Hogni_, _Gudrun_, _Laxdæla Saga_ Nidad, 95 Njal, story of (_Njála_), 8, 13, 60, 185, 207, 219-221 Oberon; see _Huon de Bordeaux_ Odd, Arrow (Örvar-Oddr), 73 Oddrun, sister of Brynhild and Attila, 102 _Lament of_ (_Oddrúnargrátr_), in the 'Elder Edda,' 103, 107 _sq._, 151 _sq._ Odd Ufeigsson: see _Bandamanna Saga_ Odoacer, referred to in _Lay of Hildebrand_, 81 Odysseus, 7, 9, 32 _sq._, 35, 71 _Odyssey_, the, 10, 163, 171; Aristotle's summary of, 18; romance in, 32 _sq._ Olaf Tryggvason, king of Norway, 205, 375 _sq._ _Olkofra Þáttr_, the story of Alecap, related to _Bandamanna Saga_, 226 Ossian, in the land of youth: see _Guingamor_ Ovid in the Middle Ages, 47, 346, 412; [Transcriber's Note: No page 412 in original.] _Ovidius Epistolarum_ studied in Iceland, 59 Ovid's story of Medea, translated in the _Roman de Troie_, 334 _sq._, 348 _sq._; _Heroides_ became the 'Saints' Legend of Cupid,' 347 Paris, Gaston, 290, 291, 331, 337, 343, 345, 348 n, 387 Paulus Diaconus, heroic stories in the Lombard history, 66 _sq._ Peer Gynt, 170 _Pèlerinage de Charlemagne_ (_chanson de geste_), 24, 53, 329 Percy, Thomas, D.D., _Five Pieces of Runic Poetry_, 73 n, 141 n Phaeacia, Odysseus in, Bossu's criticism, 31 Pindar, his treatment of myths, 43 Poitiers, William IX., Count of, his poem on setting out for the Crusade, 317 Powell, F. York, 66: see _Aage_ _Prise d'Orange_, _chanson de geste_ of the cycle of William of Orange, in substance a romance of adventure, 313 _Queste del St. Graal_, French prose romance, a contrast to the style of Chrestien de Troyes, 327, 335 Ragnar Lodbrok, his Death-Song (_Krákumál_), 140, 217, 295 Rainouart, the gigantic ally of William of Orange, 296, 311; their names associated by Dante (_Par._ xviii. 46), _ibid._