Finn, King of North Frisians and
Jutes, 2 his story sung in Heorot,
63. [S6 also Fight at Finns-
burg"]
Fitela, 62.
Folcwalda, 63.

Forests, of Early England, 136, 137,
138; giants and elves of the, 138,
139; the outlaw of the, 140; beasts
in the, 140, 141.

Forthhere, gives Baeda information
for Eccles. Hist., 345 n.
Franks, the, their literary connection
with England, 232.

Freaware, daughter of Hrothgar, 34,
35, 68.

Freeman, Professor, his English Towns
(referred to), 228 n.

Freyr, his worship connected with the
Boar-sign, 128 n.

Friesland, its conversion influences
English Literature, 232.
Frithona (Deus Dedit), Archbishop of
Canterbury, 236.

Froda, King of the Heathobeards, 68.
Frome, 227, 239, 242.

GARULF, 65.

Geat, the legend of, 5; Note B, 462.
Geats (Geatas), 15.

"Genesis A," poem of, 290-299; quoted
also, 130, 132, 177, 212.
"Genesis B," poem of, theories of its
origin, 301-303, 304; its metre, 303;
described and translated, 304-314.
Gerarde's "Herball" (quoted), 179 n.
Gerontius, King of Damnonian Brit-
ons, Ealdhelm's letter to, 241.
"Gifts of Men." [See "Crafts of Men"]
Gildas, his view of the English inva-
sion, 105, 106; his account of their
attack on a town, 109 n.

Gilling, 271.
Glastonbury, 192, 242.
Gloucester, 107.

"Gnomic Verses" described, 434;
specimens of, Note F, 490; quoted
also, 136 n., 137, 140, 141 n., 153, 169,
175, 180, 187 n., 205.

Godmundingham, 204.

"Gododin," poem of the, describes
wars in Northumbria, 266 n.
Gollancz, I., his explanation of the
Cynewulf-runes, 378 n.; his theory
of the authorship of Andreas, Note
D, 487-489; and of the introduction
to Guthlac, 409.

Goths (or Goten), 3.

Green, J. R., his History (quoted),
103, etc.

Gregory of Tours, 13.

Grein, C. W. M. (alluded to), 174, etc.
Grendel, description of, 35-38; his
struggle with Beowulf, 38, 39; his
mother, 41; her raid, pursuit, and
death, 42, 43, 45-48; meaning of the
name, 83, 84; resemblances to the
Grendel story elsewhere in litera-
ture, 84-92.

Grettis Saga, resembles story of Beo-
wulf, 89-92.

Grimm, J., his Teutonic Mythology
(quoted), 157 n., etc.

Groschopp, F., his theory concerning
the Christ and Satan, 326.
Gudrun Saga (referred to), 6, 7.
Guest, Dr. E., his Origines Celticae
(referred to), 105, etc.; his transla-
tion of poem on Uriconium, 110; his
theory of authorship of Caedmonic
poems, 303.

Guthhere, the Burgundian, 2.

96.

a warrior in Finnsburg, 65.
(Gunther), King of the Franks,

Guthlac, St., Life of, 250-252; poem
of, described and translated, 408-
413; quoted also, 176, 207.
Guthlaf, 66.

Gwynedd, Welsh kingdom of, 112.
Gyrwas, the, a tribe of Angles, 114,
116, 135.

Heathobeards, the, 68, 69 n.

Heatholaf, slain by Ecgtheow, 19.
Heathoraemas, the, 62.

Heiu, Abbess of Hartlepool, 200.
Hel, the goddess, 38.

"Heliand," Low German poem of the,
100 n.; its connection with Genesis
B, 301-302.

Henderson's Folk-Lore (quoted), 160 n.
Hengest, son of Finn, sung of in
Heorot, 39; his part in the Fight
at Finnsburg, 63-65.

a Jutish chief, lands at Ebbsfleet,
102.

Hengestdun, battle of, 249.

Henry of Huntingdon, his Chronicle
(quoted), 103, 117, 118.
Heodenings, the, 7.

Heorot, the hall of Hrothgar, 2, 26, 31,
32, 34 n., 37, 39.
Heorrenda (Horant?), Deor's rival
bard, 7.

Herebeald, son of Hrethel, 19; slain
by Haetheyn, 22.

Heremod, story of, told in Beowulf, 66.
Hexham, 227, 344.

Hickes, Dr. G., discovers MS. of Fight
at Finnsburg, 64.
Hild, her legend in Lament of Deor, 6;
discussion of the story, Note B, 462.

Abbess of Whitby, 200; her early
years, 275, 276; present at Synod of
Whitby, 277; takes the monastic life,
276; establishes monastery, 275, 276;
referred to, 286, 287.

Hildeburh, daughter of Hoce the Dane,
present at the burning of her son, 28;
referred to, 39, 63-65.
Hildegund (Hildeguthe), Princess of
Burgundy, her story in the romance
of Walther of Aquitaine, 96-97.
Hildelida, Abbess of Barking, 241.
Hnaef, son of Finn, 2; his burial de-
scribed, 28; his story, 39, 63-65.
Hoce, 63.

Hodgkin, T., his Dynasty of Theodo-
sius (quoted), 40 n.
Hondscio, thegn of Beowulf, killed by
Grendel, 39.

Honorius, Archbishop of Canterbury,
236.

Hook, Archbishop, his Lives of the
Archbishops (referred to), 228 n.
Horsa, Jutish chief, lands at Ebbsfleet,
102.

2, 19; builder of Heorot, 26; Beo-
wulf delivers him from Grendel,
29-33; his feud with the Heatho-
beards, 69 n.

Hrothulf, nephew of Hrothgar, 69 n.
Hrunting, Hunferth's sword, lent to
Beowulf, 20, 46.

Hunferth (Unferth) mocks Beowulf,
20, 35, 57; lends him Hrunting, 20;
Beowulf's generosity to, 20, 46.
Huns, their war with Goths, mentioned
in Widsith, 3; their defeat by Con-
stantine, told in Elene, 131 n.
"Husband's Message," poem of the,
355-359.

Hygberht, Archbishop of Lichfield,
253.

Hygd, second (?) wife of Hygelac, 19;
begs Beowulf to take kingdom, 20,
21, 48.

Hygelac, King of Geats, Beowulf's
uncle, identified with Chochilaicus,
13; his feud with Frisians, 14; be-
comes king, 19; avenges Haethcyn's
death, 23; has become legendary,
76 n.

IDA, King of the Angles, 115.

Ine, King of Wessex, his laws, 241;
encourages education, 242.

Ing, first King of the East Danes, 75;
Note E, 476.

Ingeld, son of Froda, 2; marries Frea-
ware, 68; his feud with Danes, 68,
69.

Iona, 267-271.

Irish, the, their interchange of learn-
ing with England, 265; settlement
in Scotland, 267; their influence on
literature and religion in Northum-
bria, 267-273.

JAENBERHT, Archbishop of Canter-
bury, 248.

James the Deacon, 277.
Jarrow, 272 n.

Jewitt's Grave Mounds (quoted), 126 n.
John, Abbot of St. Martin's, teaches
singing at Wearmouth, 226.

of Beverley, Bishop of Hexham
and York, 276; his connection with
Latin literature in Northumbria, 343.
John Barleycorn, ballad of (quoted),
152 n.

"Judith," the poem of, its origin and

date, 332-334; described and trans-
lated, 334-336; quoted also, 128, 130.
"Juliana," Cynewulf's poem of, de-
scribed, 387-389; the runic passage
in, 208, 377-379.

Junius (Francis Dujon), his edition of
the Caedmonian poems, 280, 282.
Jutes, their settlement in Britain, 102,
114; they receive Christianity in
Kent, 190, 191; in Wight, 193.

KEMBLE, John M., his edition of
Beowulf, 12; his Saxons in Eng-
land (quoted), 128 n., etc.
Kent, conquest of, 103; Christianity
received in, 190, 191; rise of litera-
ture in, 234–237.

Kent, Professor, his edition of Elene
(referred to), 405.
Kyndylan, Welsh prince, mourned in
poem on Uriconium, 111.

"LAMENT OF DEOR," poem of, its
strophic form, 5, 6; the first English
lyric, 6; translated, 6-8.
Lastingham, 231, 271.

Laws, of Kent, 236 n.; of Ine of Wes-
sex, 241 and n.; of Ælfred (referred
to), ib.

46 Leasing of Men " (Bi manna lease),
poem on the, 436 n.
Leo, H., his theory of authorship of
Riddles, 369.

Libraries, monastic, 224; at York, 224;

at Wearmouth, ib.; at Jarrow, 225.
Lichfield, see of, set up by Offa, 248,253.
Lindisfarne, 191, 222, 231.

Lindiswara, the, a tribe of Angles,
114, 116.

Llywarch Hen, his poem on Uriconium,
109-111.

Logeman, Dr., his account of inscrip-
tion on the St. Gedule cross, 338.
London, its rank as Roman city, 107.
Lullus, Archbishop of Mainz, his inter-
course with England, 247.

MABAN, teaches singing at Hexham,
226.

Mailduf, an Irish monk, 223; founds
Malmesbury, 227, 238.

Malmesbury, 239, 240, 242.
Maserfeld, battle of, 118.

Montalembert, Count, his Monks of
the West (referred to), 200 n.
Mount Badon, battle of, 13, 103, 104.
Müllenhof, K., his theory of origin of
Beowulf, 13.
Myrgings, the, 2 n.

NAEGLING, Beowulf's sword, 54, 57.
Nickers, sea-beasts, attendant on Gren-
del's dam, 76.

Nithhad (Nidad), story of, in Lament
of Deor, 6; in the Edda, Note B,
461.

Njal Saga, the burial of Flosi in the,
27.

Northfolk, a band of Angles, settled
in Britain, 114.
Northumbria, kingdom of, founded,
115; its supremacy, 116; national
literature in, 254-278; Latin litera-
ture in, 342-351; its fall, 452-456.
[See also Christianity]

Nothelm, Archbishop of Canterbury,
230, 250.
Nursling, 242.

OCKLEY, verse on battle of, 248 n.
Odinn (Woden), bears away body of
Sinfiötli, 27.

Offa, son of Wermund, King of the
Angles, mentioned in Widsith, 2; his
sword, Skrep, 54 n.; marries Thry-
tho, 67, 67 n.; confused in legend
with Offa of Mercia, 76, 253. Note
A, 460.

King of Mercia, restores import-
ance of Bath, 107; character of his
rule, 253.

Oftfor, Bishop of Worcester, 276.
Ohthere, son of Ongentheow, 23.
Old Saxony, Caedmonian poems con-
nected with, 232.

Onela, son of Ongentheow, 23.
Ongentheow, King of the Sweons, his
feud with Haethcyn, 23.
Ordlaf, 65.

Orkneyinga Saga, hunting of reindeer
told of in the, 142.

etc.

Melrose (Old), 221, 222, 271.
Mercia, rise of literature in, 251-253.
Mercians, the, settle in England, 116.
Milton, resemblances of his Paradise
Lost to the Genesis, 306 n., 307 n.
Mimming, the sword of Weland, 98 n.
Monasteries, early English, their in-
fluence on English literature, 218-
233; founded by Irish Church, 271,
272; founded by Roman Church, 272
n.; attacked by Danes, 455–456.

coast in Ælfred's, 32 n.
Osred I., King of Northumbria, 259.

II., King of Northumbria, 452.
Osric, King of Northumbria, 259.

under-king of Hwiccas, 107.
Oswald, King of Northumbria, defeats
Cadwallon at Dennisburn, 118; is
slain at Maserfeld, ib.; Christianity
under, 191, 192, 258; Irish influence
on, 270.

Oswin, King of Deira, slain by Oswiu,
258.

Oswiu, King of Northumbria, slays
Penda at Winwaed, 118; slays Os-
win, 258; Irish influence on, 270-271;
is present at Synod of Whitby, 277.

"PANTHER," verses on the, 431, 432.
"Partridge," verses on the, 431.
Paullinus, converts Northumbria, 191;
flees thence, ib.; Baeda's descrip-
tion of, 201, 202; influence of his
flight on poetry in England, 260, 261.
Peada, son of Penda, embraces Chris-
tianity, 192.

Pen, battle of, 118.

Penda, King of Mercia, allies with
Cadwallon, 112; slays Eadwine at
Heathfield, 118; slays Oswald at
Maserfeld, 118; is killed by Oswiu
at Winwaed, ib.; fights against
Christianity, 192.

Pengwern (Shrewsbury), 110.
"Phoenix," poem of the, 427-430;
quoted also, 215, 216.
Picts, 264, 267.

Powell, F. York (referred to), 114 n.
[See Vigfusson]

Prehn, A., his Rätsel des Exeterbuches
(referred to), 122 n., etc.

RAEDWALD, King of East Anglia, his
battle with Ethelfrith, 117; his
treatment of Christianity, 191.
Reinfrid, restores Whitby, 286, and n.
Rheda, a nature goddess, mentioned
by Baeda, 81.

Rhyming Poem (Rime song) (referred
to), 205, 355.

Rhys, Prof. J., his Hibbert Lectures
(referred to), 84 n.
Riddles, Early English, their charac-
ter, 134-136, 137, 142; on the Wan-
dering Singer, 7; Dragon, 52, and n.;
Sword, 122; Shield, 123; Vizor of
Helmet, 124; Spear, 124; Battering
Ram, 125; Bow, 125; Mail-coat, 125;
Horn, 126; Reed-flute, 135; Month
(?), 136; Ox, 136; Creation, 137, 141
(2); Stag-horns, 141; Stag, 142;
Badger, 142; Plough, 145; Rake, 146;
Young Bull, 146; Falcon, 147; Swan,
148; Starlings (?), 148; Nightingale,
149; Loom, 151; Mead, 151; Old John
Barleycorn (?), 152; Sun and Moon,
154; Anchor, 178; Barnacle Goose
(?), 179; Ice-floe, 181; Storm on
land, 182; Storm on sea, 182; Hurri-
cane, 183-186. See also 136, 150, 153,
175, 229.

Latin (Enigmata), 246, 368. [See
Ealdhelm, Eusebius, Symphosius,
Tatwine]

Ripon, 222, 227, 272 n.

Roger of Wendover (referred to), 117.
Romanus, 277.
Rorik, 249.

66

Ruined Burg," poem of the, 107-109.
"Rune Song," the, Note E; quoted
also, 136, 138, 180.

Runes, on the whale-bone casket, 60 n.;
on the Ruthwell Cross, 336, 337; on
reliquary of Cross at St. Gudule,
337, 338; in Cynewulf's poems, 208,
380, 384; Note D, 487.
Ruthwell Cross. [See Runes]
Rydberg, V., his Teutonic Mythology
(quoted), 78 and n.; his explanation
of the myth of Ing in the Rune Song,
Note E, 476.

SAEBERHT, King of the East Saxons,
receives Christianity, 191.
Saga, Odin's daughter, 10.
Saga-cycles of song in Beowulf, 74-
76.

Saxons, the, their migration to Eng-
land, 114. [See East-, South-, West-
Saxons]

Sceaf. [See Scyld]

Schmeller, Professor, his theory of con-
nection of Caedmonic poems with
the Heliand, 302 n.

Scilling, Widsith's brother bard, 2, 3.
Scôp, life and character of the, 5, 6, 7,
9, 10; Cynewulf, a, 8; the wander-
ing, not usual, 8; singers below the,
9. [See also for sketches of the Scôp,
the poems of Widsith, Deor, Riddle
on Wandering Singer]

Scyld, legend of, 26, 77; his burial told
in Beowulf, 26, 27; his legend told
by English Chroniclers, 78, 80; bear-
ing of legend on the origin of the
Teutonic Aryans, 79, 80; Rydberg's
theory concerning him, 78. See also
Note D, 488.
Scyldings, 26.

Sea, the, in Early English Poetry, terms
for, 162-167, 176, 177, 179; its scen-
ery, 167, 168, 173, 180; its sailors,
169, 171-178; its ships, 168, 173 n.,
176; its birds, 178, 179; weather on,
180-186; symbolic use of, in poetry,
187, 188.

Seafarer," poem of the, date and
authorship, 354, 356-358; love of
nature in, 361, 362; translated, 362,
363; and Note A, 480; quoted also,
180, 205.
Secgas, 65.

Sherborne, 239 n., 242.
Sidnacester, 231.

Siegfried. [See Arminius, Sigemund]

entire, 12.

King of Wessex, 243.
Sigemund, his burial of Sinfiötli, 27;
his story told in Beowulf, 39, 62, 63,

75.
Sigfred, friend of Baeda, 230, 345 n.
Sigurd. [See Sigemund]

Simeon of Durham (referred to), 78.
Similes, in Anglo-Saxon Poetry, 187 n.,
399 n.

Skeat, Professor (quoted), 43 n., etc.
Skene, his Four Ancient Books of
Wales (referred to), 104 n.
Southfolk, the, a band of Angles, settle
in Britain, 114.

South Saxons, the, found kingdom of
Sussex, 103; converted by Wilfrid,
193.

"Spirit of Men," poem on the, de-
scribed, 436 n.; (quoted), 153.
Stephens, Professor, his edition of
Waldhere, 95.

Strathclyde, Welsh kingdom of, 264,

265.

Streoneshalh, 279 n. [See also Whitby]
Stubbs, Bishop, his account of Baeda's
means of education, 345 n.; quoted
also, 349, etc.

Surtees Psalter, 236 n.

Sweet, Henry (quoted), 60 n., 244 n.
Sweons, feud between Geats and, 23,
24, 56.

Swithhun, Bishop of Winchester, 333.
Symphosius, his Riddles, 179 n., 181.

TACITUS, his account of Teutonic music
and verse in the Germania, 10; in the
Annals, 10, 11.

Taine, M., his sketch of the Early Eng-
lish, 70.

Taliessin, 266 n.

Tatwine, Archbishop of Canterbury,
his Riddles, 122 n., 181, 238, 250.
Ten Brink, Professor, his theory con-
cerning origin of Genesis B, 302;
his Early English Literature (re-
ferred to), 302 n.

Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of
Canterbury, 193; encourages learn-
ing, 236, 237; his Ten Articles,
237 n.

Theodric, King of the Goths, men-
tioned in Lament of Deor, 5; dis-
cussion of the passage, Note B, 462,
mentioned in Waldhere, 99.
Theodoric, King of the Franks, his
attack on Chochilaicus, 14.
Thor, 80. Note D, 469 n.

Thrytho, two versions of her story, 67 n.
Tisbury, 242.

Trumbert, friend of Baeda, 230, 345 n.
Trumhere, Abbot of Gilling, 271.
Turner, Sharon, his History of the
Anglo-Saxons (referred to), 12.
Tynemouth, 271.

URICONIUM (Wroxeter), a British
town, 105; its destruction by West
Saxons, 106, 107; Welsh poem on its
fall, 109-111.

VERCA, Abbess of Tynemouth, 200.
"Vercelli Book," 255.
Vigfusson and Powell, their Corpus Po-
eticum Boreale (referred to), 11 n.,

etc.

Vikings, the, ravage England, 248, 249.
Vilkina Saga (alluded to), 54 n., 95.
Village, the Early English, its out-

skirts, 143-150; its life and inhabi-
tants, 150-161.

Volsunga Saga, the dragon Fafnir of,
compared with the Beowulf dragon,
50; first sketch of, in Beowulf, 63.

WAEGMUNDINGS, the, 19.
Waldhere (Walther), Ekkehard's ver-
sion of the story of, 96-99.
"Waldhere," the poem of, 95, 99, 100.
Walrus, the, Note C, 463.
Waltham, 242.

"Wanderer," poem of the, date and
authorship, 355-357; descriptions of
Nature in, 357, 358; translated, 364-
367; Note A, 478; quoted also, 178,
205, 206.

Wanley, H., discovers poem of Beo-
wulf, 12.

War, in Early English Poetry, 128-132.
Wareham, 227.

Wealhtheow, wife of Hrothgar, asks
Beowulf's friendship for her sons,
19; greets him at the banquet, 35;
gives him gifts, 39; her character,

67.
Wearmouth, 227, 272 n.
Wederas, the, 15.

"Weirds of Men," poem on the, 435,
436; quoted also, 136, 140, 147, 153 n.
Weissenbrunner Prayer, the, High
German Poem, 100 n.

Wells, 242.

Weland, story of, in Lament of Deor,
6; Note B, 461; engraved on casket,
60 n.; mentioned in Beowulf, 75; in
Waldhere, 95, 98, 99.
Weohstan, 23 n.