_Raoul de Cambrai_ (_chanson de geste_), 291 n, 298-300, 309 Rastignac, Eugène de, 188 _Reykdæla Saga_, the story of Vemund, Askel, and Skuta son of Askel, connected with the story of Glum, 194, 201 Rigaut, son of Hervi the Villain, in the story of _Garin le Loherain_, 310 Rimgerd the Giantess: see _Atli_ _Rímur_, Icelandic rhyming romances, 181, 283 _Roland, Chanson de_, 9, 24, 83, 287, 293-295, 308; compared with _Byrhtnoth_ (_Maldon_), 54 _sq._; with an incident in _Njála_, 265 _Roman de la Rose_, of Guillaume de Lorris, 345, 348, 352, 359 _Rood, Dream of the_, old English poem, 134 Rosamund and Alboin in the Lombard history, 23, 67 _Rosmunda_, a tragedy, by Rucellai, 67 _Rou, Roman de_, the author's visit to Broceliande, 26 Sam (Sámr), Gunnar's dog, 214 Sarpedon's address to Glaucus, 9, 11 Sarus and Ammius (Sorli and Hamther), brothers of Suanihilda (Jordanes), 66: see _Hamðismál_ Saxo Grammaticus, 69, 79, 105, 149, 181, 374 _Scotland, Complaynt of_, romances named in, 387-389 _Scottish Field_, alliterative poem on Flodden, 179 _sq._ Shakespeare, his treatment of popular tales, 36 _sq._ _Sibyl's Prophecy_: see _Volospá_ Sidney, Sir Philip, 99, 368 Sievers, Dr. Eduard, Professor in Leipzig, 136 n, 169 n Sigmund Brestisson, in _Færeyinga Saga_, 206, 245, 283 Sigmund, father of Sinfiotli, Helgi, and Sigurd, 95, 110 Signild: see _Sivard_ Sigrdrifa, 115 Sigrun: see _Helgi_ Sigurd, the Volsung (O.N. Sigurðr), 22, 71, 100 _sq._, 129, 133 fragmentary _Lay of_ (_Brot af Sigurðarkviðu_), 103 _Lay of_: see _Brynhild_ Sinfiotli, debate of, and Gudmund, 96 _Sivard og Brynild_, Danish ballad, translated, 127-129 Skallagrim, how he told the truth to King Harald, 192 Skarphedinn, son of Njal, 190, 220 _sq._, 244, 265 Skirnir: see _Frey_ Skule, Duke, the rival of Hacon, 267 Skuta: see _Reykdæla Saga_ Snorri Sturluson (A.D. 1178-1241), author of the _Edda_, 42; and of the _Lives of the Kings of Norway_, 248; his murder avenged at Flugumyri, 263 Snorri the Priest (Snorri Goði), in _Eyrbyggja_ and other Sagas, 188, 213, 253 _Sonatorrek_ (the Sons' Loss), poem by Egil Skallagrimsson, 215 Sorli: see _Hamðismál_ Spenser, 343 Starkad, 166, 374 Stephens, George, sometime Professor in Copenhagen, 78 Stevenson, R.L., _Catriona_, 170 n Sturla of Hvamm (Hvamm-Sturla), founder of the house of the Sturlungs, his life (_Sturlu Saga_) 253-256 Sturla (_c._ A.D. 1214-1284), son of Thord, and grandson of Hvamm-Sturla, nephew of Snorri, author of _Sturlunga Saga_ (_q.v._) and of _Hákonar Saga_ (_q.v._) 61, 251, 259 _Sturlunga Saga_ (more accurately _Islendinga Saga_), of Sturla, Thord's son, a history of the author's own times, using the forms of the heroic Sagas, 61, 246 _sq._, 249 _sq._ Suanihilda: see _Swanhild_ _Svarfdæla Saga_, the story of the men of Swarfdale (_Svarfaðardalr_), 219 _Sveidal, Ungen_, Danish ballad, on the story of Svipdag and Menglad, 114, 126