The Heroic Age

About this eBook

Author

Chadwick, H. Munro (Hector Munro), 1870-1947

Credits

Produced by Richard Tonsing, Suzanne Shell, The Internet Archive/American Libraries and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

PN: Language and Literatures: Literature: General, Criticism, Collections

Subject

Epic poetry, Germanic -- History and criticism

Category

Text

eBook-No.

48426

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48426

Release Date

March 7, 2015

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.THE HEROIC AGE
3. 3.PREFACE
4. 4.CONTENTS
5. 5.NOTES.
6. 6.MAPS.
7. 7.CHAPTER I. THE EARLY NARRATIVE POETRY OF THE TEUTONIC PEOPLES. — FOOTNOTES:
8. 8.CHAPTER II. THE HEROIC AGE OF THE TEUTONIC PEOPLES. — FOOTNOTES:
9. 9.CHAPTER III. SCENE AND NATIONALITY IN THE HEROIC STORIES. — FOOTNOTES:
10. 10.CHAPTER IV. THE ORIGIN AND HISTORY OF THE HEROIC POEMS. — FOOTNOTES:
11. 11.NOTE I. THE USE OF HEROIC NAMES IN ENGLAND. — FOOTNOTES:
12. 12.NOTE II. ON THE DATING OF CERTAIN SOUND-CHANGES IN ANGLO-SAXON. — FOOTNOTES:
13. 13.NOTE III. LITERARY INFLUENCE IN BEOWULF. — FOOTNOTES:
14. 14.CHAPTER V. THE POETRY AND MINSTRELSY OF EARLY TIMES. — FOOTNOTES:
15. 15.NOTE IV. ON THE HEROIC POETRY OF THE SLAVONIC PEOPLES. — FOOTNOTES:
16. 16.NOTE V. THE HEROIC POETRY OF THE CELTIC PEOPLES. — FOOTNOTES:
17. 17.CHAPTER VI. SUPERNATURAL ELEMENTS IN THE HEROIC STORIES. — FOOTNOTES:
18. 18.CHAPTER VII. MYTHICAL ELEMENTS IN THE HEROIC POEMS. — FOOTNOTES:
19. 19.CHAPTER VIII. THE USE OF FICTION IN THE HEROIC POEMS. — FOOTNOTES:
20. 20.CHAPTER IX. THE HEROIC AGE OF GREECE. — FOOTNOTES:
21. 21.CHAPTER X. THE HOMERIC POEMS. — FOOTNOTES:
22. 22.CHAPTER XI. EARLY GREEK POETRY AND MINSTRELSY. — FOOTNOTES:
23. 23.NOTE VI. THE TROJAN CATALOGUE. — FOOTNOTES:
24. 24.CHAPTER XII. SUPERNATURAL ELEMENTS IN THE HOMERIC POEMS. — FOOTNOTES:
25. 25.CHAPTER XIII. MYTH IN THE HOMERIC POEMS. — FOOTNOTES:
26. 26.CHAPTER XIV. FICTION IN THE HOMERIC POEMS. — FOOTNOTES:
27. 27.NOTE VII. THE BATTLE OF KOSSOVO IN SERVIAN POETRY. — FOOTNOTES:
28. 28.CHAPTER XV. THE COMMON CHARACTERISTICS OF TEUTONIC AND GREEK HEROIC POETRY. — FOOTNOTES:
29. 29.CHAPTER XVI. SOCIETY IN THE HEROIC AGE. — FOOTNOTES:
30. 30.CHAPTER XVII. GOVERNMENT IN THE HEROIC AGE. — FOOTNOTES:
31. 31.CHAPTER XVIII. RELIGION IN THE HEROIC AGE. — FOOTNOTES:
32. 32.NOTE VIII. THE SOCIAL, POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS CHARACTERISTICS OF THE CELTIC AND SLAVONIC HEROIC AGES. — FOOTNOTES:
33. 33.CHAPTER XIX THE CAUSES AND ANTECEDENT CONDITIONS OF THE HEROIC AGE — FOOTNOTES:
34. 34.ADDENDA ET CORRIGENDA. — FOOTNOTES:
35. 35.INDEX
36. 36.Transcriber's Notes:

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