III
Epic and Ballad Poetry
| Many of the old epic lays are on the scale of popular ballads | 123 |
| Their style is different | 124 |
| As may be proved where later ballads have taken up the epic subjects | 125 |
| The Danish ballads of Ungen Sveidal (Svipdag and Menglad) and of Sivard (Sigurd and Brynhild) | 126 127 |
| The early epic poetry, unlike the ballads, was ambitious and capable of progress | 129 |