Achaia 174, 282, 289.

Achaioi (Achaeans) 176 f., etc., (in Crete) 177 f., 186 f.

Achilles 175, 222, 250, 263 f., 269, 275 ff., 288 f., 295 f., 462.

Aðils (cf. Eadgils) 17, 20, 31, 153 f.

Aelfwine (see Alboin).

Aeolic element in Homeric poems 208, 215, 273, 290 f.

Aeolic peoples, etc. 209, 272 ff., 295 f.

Aeolis 210 f., 227, 231 ff., 240.

Aeschylus 171, 237 ff.

Agamemnon (i) of Cyme 227, 231.

Agamemnon (ii) of Mycenae 174, 222, 237 ff., 274 ff., 288 f., 302, 382 ff.

Aias (i), son of Oileus 175, 302.

Aias (ii), son of Telamon 175, 202, 204, 302 f.

Aithiopis 170, 197, 236, 244.

Alboin 26, 28, 462.

Alcinoos 384.

Alcman 215, 222, 266.

Alcuin 41, 73, 79 f., 465.

Aldhelm 80.

Áli (cf. Onela) 20, 153 f.

alliances 373 f., 387 ff.

Amalaswintha 371 f.

Ammianus Marcellinus 23, 366.

Amyclai 240, 302.

Angli 31 f., 51, 61, 97 f., 376, 405.

Ansgar 255 f.

Aphrodite 416 ff.

Apollo 250 f., 416 ff.

Arcadian 284 f., 287, 436 f., 453.

Archilochos 194, 216, 226 f.

Ares 416 ff.

Argo 196, 245, 261.

Argos 274 ff.

Artemis 416.

Ásgarðr 400.

Asia Minor (ethnography of) 178, 245 ff.

assembly 368 f., 382 f.

Athene 250 f., 416 ff.

Athens 171, 216 ff., 381, 421.

Atli (cf. Attila) 13 f., 22, 146 f.

Attila 22, 37 f., 84 f., 156.

Audoin 371.


Balder 112, 400 f., 405.

Bavarian characters 31, 33.

Bede 71, 73, 79, 350, 414 f.

Bellerophon 212, 356 f., 380.

Beowulf 1 f., 47 ff., etc.

Bernlef 80, 87, 222, 243.

Biarkamál 17, 60, 121, 402.

Biarki 119 ff., 466.

birds (speaking) 98, 128.

Bithynians 245 f.

boasting 326 f.

Boeotia 214, 283 f.

Bosnian poetry 101 ff., 216, 429.

Bragi 15, 58.

Bravalla (Brávík) 25, 251.

bronze and iron 195, 199 f.

Brunanburh (poem) 3, 34, 332.

Brynhildr 7, 13 f., 140 ff., 163 ff.

Burgundians 7, 22, 31, 351, 366.


Cadmos 267.

Caedmon 45 f., 79, 230, 465.

Caesar 413, 427 ff.

Callinos 171, 226 f.

Caria, Carians 179, 245 ff.

Cassiodorus 26, 85, 374.

Catalogue (Hesiodic) 194, 197 f., 227, 242.

Catalogue of Ships 174, 279, 289, 379, 387 f., 468.

Chalon-sur-Saône 162.

chariot 203 f.

Charles Martel 127 f.

Chios 176, 209.

Christian influence in Anglo-Saxon poems 47 ff., 241.

Cilices 246 ff.

Cinaithon 170.

Circe 258 f., 419.

class gradations 351 f., 364 f.

Cleisthenes 193.

Clovis 31, 85, 347.

Clytaimnestra 229, 237 f.

Cnossos 178, 311.

comitatus 328 f., 348, 350, 361 ff., 376 f., 443.

council 369 ff., 383 ff.

cremation 53 ff., 397 f., 410 f., 422 f., 467.

Crete 177 f., 184 ff., 311 ff., 435, 450 ff., 467.

Cumbrian history 108 f., 430, 446 f.

Cyme 214.

Cynewulf (i), poet 45.

Cynewulf (ii), king of Wessex 349, 351.

Cynurioi 460.

Cypria 170, 197, 234 ff., 244, 248.

Cyzicos 196.


Danes 1 f., 15, 17, 20 f., 24 f., 29, 31, etc.

Danish heroes 1 f., 17, 20, 31, etc.

Demodocos 221, 234.

Deor 3, 56, 81, 92.

Dietrich von Bern (cf. Theodric) 5, 7 ff., 23, 154 f., 311 f., 333, 452.

Diomedeia 250 f.

Diomedes 175, 278, 379 f., 419.

divine parentage 264, 357.

divinity of kings 367, 381 f.

Dodona 417, 437.

Doloneia 198 f., 298.

Dorians 174, 178 f., 184, 186 f., 459.

dragons 122 ff.

Dušan 430, 448, 461.


Eadgils (i) 2, 27, 32, 56, 81.

Eadgils (ii) (cf. Aðils) 2, 20, 153.

Eastgota (see Ostrogotha).

Edda (Older) 10 ff., 99 f., 232.

Edda (Prose) 15.

Edda theology 394, 400, 404, 406 f.

Edwin 334, 349, 369.

Egill Skallagrímsson 16, 226.

Egypt 184 f., 187 ff., 266, 455.

Einhard 5, 62, 243.

Eireksmál 15, 257.

Ekkehard 6, 57, 162.

Eormenric (Ermenrich) 2 f., 8 ff., 23, 37, 157, 347.

Epeiros 437, 460.

Epigonoi 171.

eponymous heroes 131 f., 267 ff., 301.

Eratosthenes 179.

Eric the Victorious 252 f.

Etruscans 449 f.

Etzel (cf. Atli) 7 f., 22, etc.

Exodus (Anglo-Saxon) 45, 464.

Eyvindr Skaldaspillir 15 f., 91, 254.


family pride 327 f.

festivals 369, 383.

fictitious names 44, 159 ff., 299.

Finn 2, 20, 26, 42, 333.

folk-tales 110 ff., 258 ff., 264 ff., 466 f.

Franks 31, 39, 337, 343, 345 f., 352, 368, 460.

Frey 11, 15, 125, 253, 367, 394 f., 399 ff., 404.

Freyia 11 f., 400, 402.

Fria (cf. Frigg) 115, 408.

Frigg 394, 403, 405.

Frisians 2, 31, 80, 89 f., 370.

Fróði 15, 27, 123 ff., 467.


Gaulish heroic poetry 427 f.

Gaulish history 427 ff., 449 f.

Gautreks Saga 239, 385, 403.

Geatas (Götar) 1 f., 31 f., 35, 119 f., etc.

Gelimer 86, 94.

genealogies, Anglo-Saxon 42, 408 f.

genealogies, Greek 179 ff., 267.

Genesis (Anglo-Saxon) 211, 464.

Genseric 369 f., 460.

Geruthus 258 f.

Glaucos 341.

glory, love of 87 f., 325 f., 329.

glossaries, Anglo-Saxon 68, 70.

Glúmr 253.

Göndul 254, 263.

Gormo 258 ff.

Gothic heroic poetry 10, 62 f., 86 f.

Goths 23, 26, 31 ff., etc.

Grendel 116 f., 121 f., 466.

Grettis Saga 116 f., 467.

Guðrún 13 f., 37, 146 f., 152 f., 156, 163 ff.

Gundobad 22, 338 f.

Gunnarr (see Guthhere)

Gunnlaugs Saga 91 f.

Guntharius, Gunther (see Guthhere).

Guthhere (Gunnarr, Gunther) 6 f., 14, 21 f., 138 f., 141 ff., 146 f., 163, 165.

Gylfaginning 229.


Haakon, earl of Lade 16, 91, 252 ff., 401 f.

Haakon I, king of Norway 15, 91, 254, 263.

Hades 422 f.

Hadingus 125 f., 260.

Haethcyn 337, 346.

Hagbarðr 17, 27, 333.

Hagena (Högni) (i), 6 f., 14, 137 f., 140 ff., 161 f.

Hagena (Högni) (ii), see Heðinn and Högni.

Hákonarmál 15, 97, 254 f.

Hamðir and Sörli 14, 37, 156 f., 160 f., 333 (cf. Sarus and Ammius).

Haraldr Hilditönn 17, 24 f., 251.

Harold the Fair-haired 15, 91, 296.

Hávamál 11, 229, 397.

heathen elements in Beowulf 52 f.

Hector 269 ff.

Heðinn and Högni 16, 21, 27 f., 112, 135 ff. 333 (cf. Hetel and Hagen).

Helen 249, 265 ff., 337.

Helios (cattle of) 259.

Hellenic peoples 285 ff.

Hephaistos 416 f.

Hera 416 ff.

Heracleidai, Return of the 174, 180, 331.

Heremod 20, 60, 366.

Herhor 312.

Hermanaricus 10, 19, etc. (cf. Eormenric).

Hermes 416.

Heruli 346, 372 f., 407, 411, 445.

Hesiod 171 f., 194, 210, 214 f., 223, 228 ff., 242.

Hetel and Hagen (cf. Heðinn and Högni) 8 f., 21, etc.

Hildr (Hilde) 8 f., 16, 136 f.

Hildebrandslied 5,