Different plan in the _Lays of Thor_, _Þrymskviða_ and _Hymiskviða_ 95 The _Helgi_ Poems--complications of the text 95 Three separate stories--_Helgi Hundingsbane and Sigrun_ 95 _Helgi Hiorvardsson and Swava_ 98 _Helgi and Kara_ (lost) 99 The story of the Volsungs--the long _Lay of Brynhild_ 100 contains the whole story in abstract 100 giving the chief place to the character of _Brynhild_ 101 The _Hell-ride of Brynhild_ 102 The fragmentary _Lay of Brynhild_ (_Brot af Sigurðarkviðu_) 103 Poems on the death of Attila--the _Lay of Attila_ (_Atlakviða_), and the Greenland _Poem of Attila_ (_Atlamál_) 105 Proportions of the story 105 A third version of the story in the _Lament of Oddrun_ (_Oddrúnargrátr_) 107 The _Death of Ermanaric_ (_Hamðismál_) 109 The Northern idylls of the heroines (Oddrun, Gudrun)--the _Old Lay of Gudrun_, or Gudrun's story to Theodoric 109 The _Lay of Gudrun_ (_Guðrúnarkviða_)--Gudrun's sorrow for Sigurd 111 The refrain 111 Gudrun's _Chain of Woe_ (_Tregrof Guðrúnar_) 111 The _Ordeal of Gudrun_, an episodic lay 111 Poems in dialogue, without narrative-- (1) Dialogues in the common epic measure--_Balder's Doom_, Dialogues of _Sigurd_, _Angantyr_--explanations in prose, between the dialogues 112 (2) Dialogues in the gnomic or elegiac measure: (_a_) vituperative debates--_Lokasenna_, _Harbarzlióð_ (in irregular verse), _Atli and Rimgerd_ 112 (_b_) Dialogues implying action--_The Wooing of Frey_ (_Skírnismál_) 114 _Svipdag and Menglad_ (_Grógaldr_, _Fiölsvinnsmál_) 114 The _Volsung_ dialogues 115 The Western and Northern poems compared, with respect to their scale 116 The old English poems (_Beowulf_, _Waldere_), in scale, midway between the Northern poems and Homer 117 Many of the Teutonic epic remains may look like the "short lays" of the agglutinative epic theory; but this is illusion 117 Two kinds of story in Teutonic Epic--(1) episodic, _i.e._ representing a single action (_Hildebrand_, etc.); (2) summary, _i.e._ giving the whole of a long story in abstract, with details of one part of it (_Weland_, etc.) 118 The second class is unfit for agglutination 119