Chapter III
The Icelandic Sagas
I
Iceland and the Heroic Age
| The close of Teutonic Epic—in Germany the old forms were lost, but not the old stories, in the later Middle Ages | 179 |
| England kept the alliterative verse through the Middle Ages | 180 |
| Heroic themes in Danish ballads, and elsewhere | 181 |
| Place of Iceland in the heroic tradition—a new heroic literature in prose | 182 |