The Heroic Age

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H. Munro Chadwick

PREFACE

CONTENTS

NOTES.

MAPS.

CHAPTER I. THE EARLY NARRATIVE POETRY OF THE TEUTONIC PEOPLES.

CHAPTER II. THE HEROIC AGE OF THE TEUTONIC PEOPLES.

CHAPTER III. SCENE AND NATIONALITY IN THE HEROIC STORIES.

CHAPTER IV. THE ORIGIN AND HISTORY OF THE HEROIC POEMS.

NOTE I. THE USE OF HEROIC NAMES IN ENGLAND.

NOTE II. ON THE DATING OF CERTAIN SOUND-CHANGES IN ANGLO-SAXON.

NOTE III. LITERARY INFLUENCE IN BEOWULF.

CHAPTER V. THE POETRY AND MINSTRELSY OF EARLY TIMES.

NOTE IV. ON THE HEROIC POETRY OF THE SLAVONIC PEOPLES.

NOTE V. THE HEROIC POETRY OF THE CELTIC PEOPLES.

CHAPTER VI. SUPERNATURAL ELEMENTS IN THE HEROIC STORIES.

CHAPTER VII. MYTHICAL ELEMENTS IN THE HEROIC POEMS.

CHAPTER VIII. THE USE OF FICTION IN THE HEROIC POEMS.

CHAPTER IX. THE HEROIC AGE OF GREECE.

CHAPTER X. THE HOMERIC POEMS.

CHAPTER XI. EARLY GREEK POETRY AND MINSTRELSY.

NOTE VI. THE TROJAN CATALOGUE.

CHAPTER XII. SUPERNATURAL ELEMENTS IN THE HOMERIC POEMS.

CHAPTER XIII. MYTH IN THE HOMERIC POEMS.

CHAPTER XIV. FICTION IN THE HOMERIC POEMS.

NOTE VII. THE BATTLE OF KOSSOVO IN SERVIAN POETRY.

CHAPTER XV. THE COMMON CHARACTERISTICS OF TEUTONIC AND GREEK HEROIC POETRY.

CHAPTER XVI. SOCIETY IN THE HEROIC AGE.

CHAPTER XVII. GOVERNMENT IN THE HEROIC AGE.

CHAPTER XVIII. RELIGION IN THE HEROIC AGE.

NOTE VIII. THE SOCIAL, POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS CHARACTERISTICS OF THE CELTIC AND SLAVONIC HEROIC AGES.

CHAPTER XIX THE CAUSES AND ANTECEDENT CONDITIONS OF THE HEROIC AGE

ADDENDA ET CORRIGENDA.

INDEX

Transcriber's Notes:

The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.

Cambridge Archaeological and Ethnological Series

THE HEROIC AGE

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MAP OF CENTRAL EUROPE

illustrating the Heroic Age of the Teutonic Peoples

Where the same name occurs both in capitals and italics the former denote a position occupied in the early part of the Heroic Age, while the latter mark a change or extension of territories.

THE HEROIC AGE

BY

H. MUNRO CHADWICK

Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge

Cambridge:
at the University Press
1912
Reprinted
1967

Published by the Syndics of the Cambridge University Press
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PUBLISHER'S NOTE

Cambridge University Press Library Editions are reissues of out-of-print standard works from the Cambridge catalogue. The texts are unrevised and, apart from minor corrections, reproduce the latest published edition.

First published 1912
Reprinted 1967

First printed in Great Britain at the University Printing House, Cambridge
Reprinted in the United States of America
Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number: 13-13081

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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