62, 94 f.

Hiörungavágr 252.

Hittites 178, 188 ff., 204 f., 246 f.

Holmryge (cf. Rugii) 21, 28.

Homer's birthplace 179, 208 f.

Homeric armature 185 f., 191, 201 ff.

Homeric civilisation 186 f., 199 ff., 434 ff.

Hornklofi 15, 91.

Hrólfr Kraki 17, 20, 349.

Hrólfs Saga Kraka 120 ff.

Hrothgar 1 f., 20, 83, 119, 354, 368, 462.

Hygd, 372.

Hygelac 1 f., 24, 341, 371 f.

Hyndlulióð 12, 229, 402, 468.


Iason 196.

Iceland 10, 91 ff., 394 f., 398 ff.

Idomeneus 175, 278, 306.

Iliad 169, 174 f., 193 ff., etc.

images 205.

Ingeld (Ingellus, Ingialdr) 17, 36, 41 f., 61, 333, 465 f.

inscriptions, Anglo-Saxon 69, 71, 214.

inscriptions, Greek 209, 217, 280 f.

international interest of heroic poetry 34 ff., 335 f.

international relations 373 ff., 386 ff.

invulnerability 129, 264.

Ionian Isles 175, 274.

Ionic cities 176, 236, 245 f.

Ionic dialects 208 f., 215 ff., 283.

Ionic language of Homeric poems 208, 215 ff., 273.

Iörmunrekr 14, 19, etc. (cf. Eormenric).

Iphigeneia 238 f.

Istros 269 f.

Ithaca 356, 378.


Jómsvíkingar 251.

Jordanes 10, 26, 62, 86 f., 157.


kindred 344 ff., 353 ff., 442 f.

kingship 227 f., 337, 366 ff., 378 ff.

kinsman (slaying of) 346 ff., 359 f.

Kossovo 313, 316 f., 429, 441.

Kraljević Marko 441.

Kriemhild (cf. Guðrún) 7 f., 19, 145 ff., 163 ff.

Kûdrûn 8 f., 16, 19, 34, 135 f.


Langobardi 9, 26, 62, 89, 115, 371 ff.

Langobardic poetry 9 f., 115, 251, 413.

Langres 31, 162.

Lazar 313 ff.

Leire 377, 403.

Leleges 246, 248.

Lesbos 176.

Little Iliad 170, 197, 236.

Ljubović (Beg) 103, 441.

Locrians 269 f., 278, 357.

Loðbrók (Ragnarr) 17, 24, 295 f.

Lokasenna 11, 83, 403.

Loki 11, 403.

Ludwigslied 5, 21, 34.

Lycians 178 f., 212, 356 f.

Lycurgos 334 f.


Maldon (poem) 3, 97.

manes-worship 398 f., 410, 421.

Marcellinus Comes 37.

marriage-customs 98, 205, 358 f.

Menelaos 175, 277, 356, 362.

Merenptah 187, 455.

mercenary service 445 ff., 455 f., 461.

Merovingians 345 f., 367.

Merseburg charms 405, 408 f., 412.

Midas 227.

Miletos 176, 231, 246.

Miloš Obilić 314 f., 317 f.

Mimnermos 332.

Minoan civilisation 184 ff., 451 ff.

Minos 310 ff.

minstrelsy 79 ff., 221 ff.

Murad I 313 ff.

Mycenae 185, 240, 274, 308 f., 435, 450 ff.

Mycenean civilisation 185 ff., 190 ff., 200 ff., 218, 233, 435 ff., 451 f.


Nekyia 197, 229, 257, 260 f.

Nestor 175, 272, 277, 342.

Nibelungenlied 7, 139 ff., 164 f., 224, 233, 393, 467.

Niflungar (Nibelunge) 140 ff.

Niörðr 399 f., 405.

nobility 352, 364.

north-west Greek 281 ff.

Norway 10, 15, 30, 32 f., 59, 91 f., 100, 118 ff., 375, 395, 401, 404, 406 f.

Nostoi 170, 197, 234 ff.


Odoacer 23, 376 f.

Odysseus 175, 258, 273 f., 288 f., 297 ff., 358, 363 f., 419.

Odyssey 169, 175, 193 ff., etc.

Offa (i), king of Angel 4, 17, 26 f., 126, 333, 376.

Offa (ii), king of Mercia 126, 334 f.

officials 352.

Ohthere (Óttarr) 20, 153.

Old Saxons 88 f., 370, 407, 410.

Olympos 232, 416 f.

Onela (cf. Áli) 2, 20, 153 f., 347.

Ongentheo 2, 153, 340.

Orestes 237.

Orms Tháttr Storolfssonar 117 f., 467.

Ostrogotha 10, 21, 26.

Othin 11, 13, 114, 251, 253 ff., 394 ff. (cf. Woden).

Óttarr (i), son of Innsteinn 12, 402, 468.

Óttarr (ii), father of Aðils (see Ohthere).


Paphlagonia 245.

Paris 222, 229, 269 ff.

Patroclos 328 f., 361 f.

patronymics 355.

Paulus Diaconus 25 f., 372 f.

Peisistratos 216, 256.

Pelasgic Argos 274, 278 ff.

Pelasgoi 177, 186, 248, 285 ff.

Penelope 358 f.

Pentaur (Poem of) 247, 455.

Periandros 261, 422.

personal allegiance 348 ff., 361 ff.

personal names (heroic) 42 ff., 64 ff., 231.

Phaeacians 297, 299 f., 384 f.

Phaistos 268, 311.

Phemios 221, 234.

Philistines (see Pulesatha).

Phocis 283.

Phoinix 279, 360 f., 363.

Phthia 279, 286.

Phthiotis 176, 280, 282, 286 f.

place-names (heroic) 43 f.

Poseidon 416 ff.

Polyphemos 258.

Praisos 178, 213.

priests 367, 380.

Priscus 37, 62, 84.

Procopius 86, 97 ff., 128 ff., etc.

Proitos 212, 452.

Pulesatha 188 ff., 455 f.

Pylos 277, 451.


Quedlinburg Annals 6, 9, 23, 37, 80.


Rabenschlacht 8, 23.

Radiger 98, 370 f.

Rameses II 188, 247, 455.

Rameses III 185, 188 f., 455.

Ravenna 23, 452.

Reginsmál, Fáfnismál, Sigrdrífumál 13, 145, 235.

riding 204.

Roman influence 444 ff.

royal marriages 373 f., 386 f.

Rugii 28, 31, 134 (cf. Holmryge).

Russian heroic poetry 104 f.


Salamis 193, 302 f.

sanctuaries 205 f., 400 f., 406 f.

Sarpedon 305, 357.

Sarus (i) 160 f., 377, 467.

Sarus (ii) and Ammius 10, 14, etc. (cf. Hamðir and Sörli).

Saxo Grammaticus 17, 20, 25, etc.

Scheria 379, 384.

Scyld 75, 131 f., 373.

Servian (Christian) heroic poetry 103 f., 313 ff., 429 f.

Servian history 313 ff., 430, 447 ff.

Sety I 204.

Seyfridslied 7, 122, 140 f., 144 f.

Shardina 188 ff., 201, 451, 454 ff.

shield 201 f.

Shield of Heracles 169, 175.

Sidonius Apollinaris 85.

Siegfried 7, 19, 31, 33, 139 ff., 164 (cf. Sigurðr).

Sigarr 17, 21.

Sigmundr (Sigemund) 2, 16, 59 f., 114, 122 ff., 142, 251, 297.

Sigurðr 12 ff., 59, 114, 139 ff., 163 ff., 263 f., 333 (cf. Siegfried).

Sigurðr Hringr 17, 24 f., 251.

single combats 339 f.

Smyrna 208 ff., 332.

Sparta 179 ff., 184, 331.

Spercheios 206, 279 ff., 287, 417, 419.

spoils 340 f.

stages in history of heroic poetry 94 ff.

Starkaðr 77, 36, 92 f.

Stesichoros 171, 239 f., 266, 310.

Strassburg, battle of 340, 349.

succession 356.

suitors of Penelope 300 f., 363.

Sunilda 10, 160 f. (cf. Svanhildr).

supernatural beings 114 ff., 250 ff.

supernatural properties 128 f., 262.

Svanhildr 14, 16, 37, 157 (cf. Sunilda).

Swedes (Sweon, Svíar) 2, 15, 20, 31, 153 f., 367 ff., 399.


Tacitus 78, 349, 368 f., 413.

Tchakaray (Zakar) 188 f.

Telemachos 242 f.

Tell-el-Amarna 188, 192, 455.

Thebais 171.

Theodberht 23 f., 462.

Theodric 3, 19, 23, 25, 29 ff, 154 f., 373, 461 (cf. Dietrich von Bern).

Thersites 228.

Theseus 266.

Thessaly 232, 269 ff.

Thetis 264, 418 f.

Thiðreks Saga af Bern 9, 57, 134, 138 f., 145 f.

Thióðolfr 15, 91.

Thor 11, 253, 394 ff., 404.

Thórgerðr Hölgabrúðr 252, 401 f.

Thorkillus 258 f.

Thraco-Phrygian peoples 178 f., 190, 457 f.