The Hero of Esthonia and Other Studies in the Romantic Literature of That CountryKirby, W. F. (William Forsell)
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The Hero of Esthonia and Other Studies in the Romantic Literature of That Country
Kirby, W. F. (William Forsell)
Estonian literature; Estonian literature -- History and criticism
Cross-dance, i. 14.
Crow, slave-girl born from, i. 2, 10.
Cruel stepmothers, i. 85 note, 276, 280; ii. 4, 46.
Cuckoo, i. 82.
Cudgel, magic, ii. 25, 74.
Cup-bearer of Kalevide, i. 4, 66.
Cup-bearer visits Põrgu, i. 66.
Cup-bearer, disappearance of, i. 115.
Dagö, Island of, i. xiii.; ii. 112, 222, 283.
Damocles, sword of, ii. 8.
Danish ballads, Prior's, i. 115 note.
Daughters, Twelve, ii. 59, 87.
Dawn, story of, ii. 30.
Death-sorcerer, i. xxxi.
Demon cookery, i. 4, 88.
Despised younger son, ii. 40.
[Pg 310]Devil, names and attributes of, i. xxx.
Devil, stories of, ii. 38, 78, 148.
Devil, animals hostile to, ii. 76.
Devil called Old Boy, i. xxx., 153.
Devil creates the wolf, ii. 274.
Devil in church, ii. 112.
Devil provides horses for the Kalevipoeg, i. 142.
Devil steals fish, ii. 155.
Devil tries to destroy churches, ii. 263.
Devil with the three golden hairs, ii. 71.
Devil and Soldier, ii. 76.
Devil's mother or grandmother, i. 58 note, 66, 99, 142 note, 165.
Devil's Treasure, ii. 225.
Devil's Visit, ii. 38, 301.
Dido on Esthonian tales and the "Kalevipoeg," i. xxii., 133 note; ii.
299, 300.
"Die gelehrte Ehstnische Gesellschaft," i. xvii.
Divination by brooch and beetle, i. 19.
Diving Jinn, ii. 96 note.
Dog and cat, ii. 282.
Dog and Devil, ii. 76.
Dog-men, i. 5, 117.
"Donica," poem by Southey, ii. 147 note.
Donner on the "Kalevipoeg" and "Kalevala," ii. 300.
Dragon-slayer, ii. 6.
Dragons as saurians, ii. 7.
Draupadi, the heroine of the Indian Epic, the Maha-Bharata, ii. 23
note.
Drinking-bouts, i. 3, 45, 131.
Dvergar (dwarfs), Old Norse name for the Gnomes, ii. 113.
Dorpat, i. 56 note.
Ducks with gold and silver plumage, i. xxx., 202.
Dwarf and heroes, i. 115.
Dwarf's christening, ii. 8.
Dwarf's quarrel, ii. 25.
Dwarfs, headless, ii. 213.
Dwarfs stealing food, i. 121, 187, 207; ii. 26.
[Pg 311]Eagle of the North, i. 2, 8, 227, 257, 268, 271.
East, magician of, ii. 239.
Edda (Grandmother), name applied to the two principal collections of
Scandinavian mythological and heroic poems and legends, the Poetical
Edda, or the Edda of Sæmund, and the Prose Edda, or the Edda of Snore,
i. 60 note, 91 note; ii. 29, 71 note.
"Ed-Dimiryaht" (a king of the Jinn, and one of the two chief Wezeers of
Solomon), poem by Kirby, ii. 236.
Egg-born princess, i. 273.
Egg, Linda born from, i. 2, 9.
Egg, Suometar born from, i. 10 note.
Egg, magic, ii. 234.
Elemental spirits, ii. 96 note.
Elements, stories of spirits of, ii. 60.
Elsie, i. 240.
Elves, Tieck's story of, i. 236.
Emmu Lake and Virts Lake, ii. 144.
Endel or Endla, son of Ilmarine, ii. 87.
Endla, Lake, i. 88; ii. 85.
"Encyclopædia Britannica," article on Esthonia in, ii. 300.
Envious sisters, story of, in the "Thousand and One Nights," ii. 9.
Epic of Esthonia, the "Kalevipoeg," i. 1.
Epic of Finland, the "Kalevala," i. 1.
Esau and Jacob, i. 19.
Esquimaux, i. 117 note.
Esthonia, article in "Encyclopædia Britannica," ii. 300.
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