The Heroic Age

Preface; 1. The early narrative poetry of the Teutonic peoples; 2. The Heroic Age of the Teutonic peoples; 3. Scene and nationality in the heroic stories; 4. The origin and history of the heroic poems; 5. The poetry and minstrelsy of early times; 6. Supernatural elements in the heroic stories; 7. Mythical elements in the heroic poems; 8. The use of fiction in the heroic poems; 9. The Heroic Age of Greece; 10. The Homeric poems; 11. Early Greek poetry and minstrelsy; 12. Supernatural elements in the Homeric poems; 13. Myth in the Homeric poems; 14. Fiction in the Homeric poems; 15. The common characteristics of Teutonic and Greek heroic poems; 16. Society in the Heroic Age; 17. Government in the Heroic Age; 18. Religion in the Heroic Age; 19. The causes and antecedent condition of the Heroic Age; Notes; Addenda et corrigenda; Index.