| CHAPTER | | PAGE |
| I. | The early narrative poetry of the Teutonic peoples | 1 |
| II. | The Heroic Age of the Teutonic peoples | 19 |
| III. | Scene and nationality in the heroic stories | 30 |
| IV. | The origin and history of the heroic poems | 41 |
| V. | The poetry and minstrelsy of early times | 77 |
| VI. | Supernatural elements in the heroic stories | 110 |
| VII. | Mythical elements in the heroic poems | 131 |
| VIII. | The use of fiction in the heroic poems | 151 |
| IX. | The Heroic Age of Greece | 168 |
| X. | The Homeric poems | 193 |
| XI. | Early Greek poetry and minstrelsy | 221 |
| XII. | Supernatural elements in the Homeric poems | 249 |
| XIII. | Myth in the Homeric poems | 263 |
| XIV. | Fiction in the Homeric poems | 292 |
| XV. | The common characteristics of Teutonic and Greek heroic poetry | 320 |
| XVI. | Society in the Heroic Age | 344 |
| XVII. | Government in the Heroic Age | 366 |
| XVIII. | Religion in the Heroic Age | 393 |
| XIX. | The causes and antecedent conditions of the Heroic Age | 432 |
