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List of extant poems and fragments in one or other of the older Teutonic languages (German, English, and Northern) in unrhymed alliterative verse
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76
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Small amount of the extant poetry
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78
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Supplemented in various ways
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79
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1. The Western Group (German and English)
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79
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Amount of story contained in the several poems, and scale of treatment
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79
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Hildebrand, a short story
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80
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Finnesburh, (1) the Lambeth fragment (Hickes); and (2) the abstract of the story in Beowulf
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81
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Finnesburh, a story of (1) wrong and (2) vengeance, like the story of the death of Attila, or of the betrayal of Roland
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82
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Uncertainty as to the compass of the Finnesburh poem (Lambeth) in its original complete form
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84
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Waldere, two fragments: the story of Walter of Aquitaine preserved in the Latin Waltharius
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84
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Plot of Waltharius
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84
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Place of the Waldere fragments in the story, and probable compass of the whole poem
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86
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Scale of Maldon and of Beowulf
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88 89
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General resemblance in the themes of these poems—unity of action
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89
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Development of style, and not neglect of unity nor multiplication of contents, accounts for the difference of length between earlier and later poems
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91
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Progress of Epic in England—unlike the history of Icelandic poetry
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92
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2. The Northern Group
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93
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The contents of the so-called "Elder Edda" (i.e. Codex Regius 2365, 4to Havn.) to what extent Epic
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93 93
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Notes on the contents of the poems, to show their scale; the Lay of Weland
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94
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Different plan in the Lays of Thor, Þrymskviða and Hymiskviða
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95
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The Helgi Poems—complications of the text
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95
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Three separate stories—Helgi Hundingsbane and Sigrun
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95
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Helgi Hiorvardsson and Swava
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98
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Helgi and Kara (lost)
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99
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The story of the Volsungs—the long Lay of Brynhild contains the whole story in abstract giving the chief place to the character of Brynhild
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100 100 101
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The Hell-ride of Brynhild
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102
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The fragmentary Lay of Brynhild (Brot af Sigurðarkviðu)
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103
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Poems on the death of Attila—the Lay of Attila (Atlakviða), and the Greenland Poem of Attila (Atlamál)
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105
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Proportions of the story
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105
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A third version of the story in the Lament of Oddrun (Oddrúnargrátr)
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107
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The Death of Ermanaric (Hamðismál)
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109
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The Northern idylls of the heroines (Oddrun, Gudrun)—the Old Lay of Gudrun, or Gudrun's story to Theodoric
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109
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The Lay of Gudrun (Guðrúnarkviða)—Gudrun's sorrow for Sigurd
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111
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The refrain
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111
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Gudrun's Chain of Woe (Tregrof Guðrúnar)
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111
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The Ordeal of Gudrun, an episodic lay
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111
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Poems in dialogue, without narrative— (1) Dialogues in the common epic measure—Balder's Doom, Dialogues of Sigurd, Angantyr—explanations in prose, between the dialogues (2) Dialogues in the gnomic or elegiac measure: (a) vituperative debates—Lokasenna, Harbarzlióð (in irregular verse), Atli and Rimgerd (b) Dialogues implying action—The Wooing of Frey (Skírnismál)
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112 112 114
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Svipdag and Menglad (Grógaldr, Fiölsvinnsmál)
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114
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The Volsung dialogues
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115
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The Western and Northern poems compared, with respect to their scale
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116
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The old English poems (Beowulf, Waldere), in scale, midway between the Northern poems and Homer
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117
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Many of the Teutonic epic remains may look like the "short lays" of the agglutinative epic theory; but this is illusion
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117
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Two kinds of story in Teutonic Epic—(1) episodic, i.e. representing a single action (Hildebrand,
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