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the
early
heroic
poetry
and
traditions
quite unintelligible
poems
8 EARLY
wherein
he
CHAPTER II.
any
dealings
with
Eormenric.
Swedish
princes
common
to
Beowulf
and
the
Northern
authorities
passed
from
one
Teutonic
people
to
in
England,
depend
largely
on
the
amount
of
inconsistency
to
burn
his
(Aeschere's)
German
origin
66 HEROIC
(p.
274)
proposes
for
the
composition
of
Beowulf
is
700
730.
what
should
we
presently.
My
reason
for
concluding
that
the
loss
of
h
occurred
in
the
archetype
was
that
in
at
least
eight
entries
(probably
several
more)
kept
the
original
form
glossary
against
the
other
which
Northumbrian
evidence.
The
form
-gar
on
the
have been
a
most
elementary
description.
In
Widsith
we
actually
have
of
a
fleet.
Then,
as
to
poem
(vv.
princes
Saxons
were
under
kingly
government
at
doubt that
western
and
central
Europe.
minstrel
who
recited
here
might
be
applied
with
considerable
probability
to
the
Frisian
minstrel
Bernlef
or
the
English
Columba,
Il6 SUPERNATURAL
successive Christ-
names of historical
The
identification
is
denied
by
many
scholars,
but
there
are
two
points
in
the
story
of
hand
it
is
probability
that
these
stories
Sihtric
(Olafr
Kvaran)
as
a
marvel
to
visitors.
contemporary
or
almost
contemporary
narratives.
They
must
be
taken
as
faithful
reflections
existence
through
the
1
The
early
North
German
of
foes,
who
slay
him
and
take
SigurSr
records,
and
that
from
this
story,
whether
numerous
and
striking,
CHAPTER VIII.
restricted
within
comparatively
narrow
limits,
while
in
the
rbv
plv
ra
\tyeiv,
rbv
5
ola
av
ytvoiro.
5td
KOU
either
of
the
For the
years,
and
both
speak
of
all
likely
that
they
l6o FICTION
criticism of
have
in
Procopius'
account
of
Irmingisl
and
Radiger
(cf.
p.
97
ff.),
written
decidedly
in
favour
of
the
view
that
the
story
of
SigurSr
is
that
same
period
we
find
also
many
fictitious
characters,
not
only
in
the
German
poems,
where
they
may
taken
into
account
in
our
Age
the
truth,
though
it
1
Once
also,
together
with
'Axcuoi
(II.
n
684),
son
ol
Poseidon,
ancestor
of
the
priests
century.
As
to
the
relative
value
earlier
kingdom
in
Syria
and
Cappadocia
had
become
so
repelled
by
Rameses
pointed
is
said
about
the
Cimmerioi
in
Od.
XI
14
19
eighth
century.
But
in
of
the
few
leading
men
who
are
doubt
on
this
view;
for
a
number
of
statuettes,
the
poems.
We
must
conclude
then
either
that
the
later
parts
were
composed
in
an
artificial
type
of
language,
pages.
There
pean
Ionic
us it
has
the
merit
of
providing
a
satisfactory
explanation
Ireland,
Germany
poem
(v.
172
22O THE
222 EARLY
an
end
about
the
things
place
Hesiod
takes
no
pains
to
he
rescued
by
Artemis.
On
the
other
hand
the
Iliad
and
the
Odyssey
are
completely
silent.
Yet
in
the
latter
case
this
silence
cannot
be
due
to
gods
who
hold
Olympos
1
were
heroes
of
several
peoples
which
of
the
sea
to
their
presence
nothing
of
Cilices
in
this
region
is
difficult
to
date
the
composition
heroic
court-poetry
was
in
its
decadence
when
the
Cypria
was
composed
Hector
in
truth of
with
Agamemnon
and
his
companions
(vv.
385
564)
we
find
ourselves
in
much
the
same
world
return in
tribal conflicts
now turn
our attention.
In the
latter
name.
Occasionally
it
denotes
the
well-known
city
in
Argolis
east
of
Phthiotis,
same
movement
Greek
spoken
throughout
the
whole
region
from
Thessaly
down
to
may
many
modern
scholars
have
adopted.
utilised for
of
FICTION IN
originally
identical
with
the
Bistonian
Diomedes,
who
really belongs
suppose
they
rest
is
altogether
inconclusive.
Lastly,
we
have
noted
that,
if
our
view
to the two
come
near
and
say
what
;
yevvcuoTarov
queen
(ib.
45.
146
ff.).
It
that
after
barrow
by
who
ply
their
tall
ships
waters.
term
elopement
may
more
properly
be
applied
to
the
story
of
HeSinn
and
Hogni,
whatever
was
the
original
form
of
its
ending.
A
counterpart
the
historical
period
are
I
those
of
legislators
and
public
benefactors,
such
as
Zaleucos
and
Age
is
the
the records
folktales
lies
in
the
fact
that
under
unsettled
social
conditions
such
the coat
were
doubtless
very
costly,
and
often,
back
to
Hygelac
in
a
single
workman
nearly
Burgundians,
especially
begat
one
only
son
Laertes,
and
the
Homeric
poems
2
yevos.
Lastly,
there
for
kindred.
Some
of
these,
such
as
the
men,
at
all
events
Patroclos,
Automedon
and
Phoinix,
seem
slave
(e.g.
Od.
xv
557),
while
on
the
other
hand
it
is
applied,
again
like
dryhten,
so
doing.
Plainly
then
there
the
Swedish
kings,
probably
Onela,
is
married
to
may
refer
a
quite
exceptional
honour.
2
Cf.
Cassiodorus,
Var.
Ill
3.
3
Cf.
Chron.,
ann.
945.
For
the
form
of
agreement
entered
into
upon
such
occasions
reference
may
that
which
we
have
discussed
Od.
vin
26
fT.
Alcinoos
addresses
the
Phaeacians
in
their
assembly
(dyoptf)
and
declares
course that these
religion
we
shall
have
to
discuss
in
somewhat
legal
proceedings
than
three
persons
is
noteworthy
that
the
term
Valkyriur
seems
to
be
applied
both
to
supernatural
beings
what
may
perhaps
be
do not
deities,
half
god
from
English
possible.
They
had
we
have
any
as
goddesses.
Of
other
mythical
beings
the
genii
locorum
are
perhaps
the
most
prominent.
The
distinction
between
them
and
the
class
Beow.
175
ff.
(cf.
p.
53).
In
the
period, though
a distant
primitive
forms
of
religion.
It
is
say
century
(B.C.).
But
in
the
name
(2/ca/u,dj/5ptos}
last
three
chapters.
by
Prof.
Meyer
(Gesch.
d.
Alt?,
I
pp.
701,
719
f.).
The
problem
will
no
doubt
be
discussed
more
fully
in
his
next
volume.
Here
I
need
only
of
wall-paintings
at
Tiryns
and
elsewhere
seem
to
me
to
weigh
rather
differences
between
Homeric
and
Mycenean
(Late
Minoan)
Roman
buildings
The first
wall-paintings
at
Thebes
and
elsewhere
more
especially
those
recently
discovered
at
Tiryns,
which
belong
to
two
distinct
periods
(cf.
Rodenwaldt,
Ath.
Mitt.,
xxxvi
198
ff.).
The
resemblance
of
these
when
they
are
first
mentioned
down
feather
head-dress
is
worn
by
Ionian
or
Carian
mercenaries
on
a
monument
of
Sennacherib
(ib.,
p.
122
f.).
north of
an
persons
who
population
ADDENDA ET
But
expression
to
persons
born
after
800
applies
only
to
the
period
extending
down
to
975.
I
have
not
examined
the
evidence
available
for
later
times.
this
work,
as
it
rightly
been
pointed

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