Chapter I
Introduction
I
The Heroic Age
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| Epic and Romance: the two great orders of medieval narrative | 3 |
| Epic, of the "heroic age," preceding Romance of the "age of chivalry" | 4 |
| The heroic age represented in three kinds of literature—Teutonic Epic, French Epic, and the Icelandic Sagas | 6 |
| Conditions of Life in an "heroic age" | 7 |
| Homer and the Northern poets | 9 |
| Homeric passages in Beowulf and in the Song of Maldon | 10 11 |
| Progress of poetry in the heroic age | 13 |
| Growth of Epic, distinct in character, but generally incomplete, among the Teutonic nations | 14 |