Sverre, king of Norway (_ob._ 1202), his _Life_ (_Sverris Saga_) written by Abbot Karl Jónsson at the king's dictation, 249; quotes a Volsung poem, 278 _Svipdag and Menglad_, old Northern poems of, 78, 114 _sq._: see _Sveidal_ Swanhild (O.N. Svanhildr), daughter of Sigurd and Gudrun, her cruel death; the vengeance on Ermanaric known to Jordanes in the sixth century, 65: see _Hamðismál_ Tasso, 18, 21; his critical essays on heroic poetry, 30 Tegnér, Esaias, 141; his _Frithiofs Saga_, 277 Tennyson, _Enid_, 355 Theodoric (O.N. Þióðrekr), a hero of Teutonic epic in different dialects, 22, 81, 87; fragment of Swedish poem on, inscription on stone at Rök, 78: see _Gudrun_ Thersites, 243 Thidrandi, whom the goddesses slew, 208 _Þidreks Saga_ (thirteenth century), a Norwegian compilation from North German ballads on heroic subjects, 79, 121 Thomas: see _Tristram_ Thor, in old Northern literature, his Fishing for the World Serpent (_Hymiskviða_), 43, 77, 95; the Winning of the Hammer (_Þrymskviða_), 43, 77, 81, 95 Danish ballad of, 125 the contention of, and Odin (_Harbarzlióð_), 77, 113 Thorarin, in _Eyrbyggja_, the quiet man, 227 Thorgils and Haflidi (_Þorgils Saga ok Hafliða_), 226, 238, 252 _sq._ Thorkell Hake, in _Ljósvetinga Saga_, 225 Thorolf Bægifot: see _Eyrbyggja_ Thorolf, Kveldulf's son: see _Skallagrim_ _Þorsteins Saga Hvíta_, the story of Thorstein the White, points of resemblance to _Laxdæla_ and _Gunnlaugs Saga_, 281 _Þorsteins Saga Stangarhöggs_ (Thorstein Staffsmitten), a short story, 282 Thrond of Gata (_Færeyinga Saga_), 245 _Þrymskviða_: see _Thor_ Thrytho, 162 Thurismund, son of Thurisvend, king of the Gepidae, killed by Alboin, 67 _Tirant lo Blanch_ (Tirant the White, Romance of), 38 n; a moral work, 222 Trissino, author of _Italia liberata dai Goti_, a correct epic poem, 30 _Tristram and Iseult_, 336, Anglo-Norman poems, by Béroul and Thomas, 344; of Chrestien (lost), _ibid._ Troilus, 368 _sq._ _Troy, Destruction of_, alliterative poem, 180 Ufeig: see _Bandamanna Saga_ Uistean Mor mac Ghille Phadrig, 170 Uspak: see _Bandamanna Saga_ _Vafþrúðnismál_, mythological poem in 'Elder Edda,' 77, 112, 115 Vali: see _Bandamanna Saga_ _Vápnfirðinga Saga_, the story of Vopnafjord, 193, 226 _Vatnsdæla Saga_, story of the House of Vatnsdal, 189 Vemund: see _Reykdæla Saga_ _Vergi, la Chastelaine de_, a short tragic story, 362 _sq._ _Víga-Glúms Saga_, 193: see _Glum_ Víga-Styrr: see _Heiðarvíga Saga_ _N.B._--The story referred to in the text is preserved in Jón Olafsson's recollection of the leaves of the MS. which were lost in the fire of 1728 (_Islendinga Sögur_, 1847, ii. p. 296). It is not given in Mr. William Morris's translation of the extant portion of the Saga, appended to his _Eyrbyggja_. Vigfusson, Gudbrand, 77, 280 n, 283 n _Viglund, Story of_, a romantic Saga, 278 _sq._ Villehardouin, a contemporary of Snorri, 269