IV
The Style of the Poems
| Rhetorical art of the alliterative verse | 133 |
| English and Norse | 134 |
| Different besetting temptations in England and the North | 136 |
| English tameness; Norse emphasis and false wit (the Scaldic poetry) | 137 |
| Narrative poetry undeveloped in the North; unable to compete with the lyrical forms | 137 |
| Lyrical element in Norse narrative | 138 |
| Volospá, the greatest of all the Northern poems | 139 |
| False heroics; Krákumál (Death-Song of Ragnar Lodbrok) | 140 |
| A fresh start, in prose, with no rhetorical encumbrances | 141 |
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