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General resemblance in the themes of these poems—unity of action 89 Development of style, and not neglect of unity nor multiplication of contents, accounts for the difference of length between
earlier and later poems  
91 Progress of Epic in England—unlike the history of Icelandic poetry 92 2. The Northern Group 93 The contents of the so-called "Elder Edda" (i.e. Codex Regius 2365, 4to Havn.)
to what extent Epic 93
93 Notes on the contents of the poems, to show their scale; the Lay of Weland 94 Different plan in the Lays of Thor, Þrymskviða and Hymiskviða 95 The Helgi Poems—complications of the text 95 Three separate stories—Helgi Hundingsbane and Sigrun 95 Helgi Hiorvardsson and Swava 98 Helgi and Kara (lost) 99 The story of the Volsungs—the long Lay of Brynhild
contains the whole story in abstract
giving the chief place to the character of Brynhild 100
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101 The Hell-ride of Brynhild 102 The fragmentary Lay of Brynhild (Brot af Sigurðarkviðu) 103 Poems on the death of Attila—the Lay of Attila (Atlakviða), and the Greenland Poem of Attila (Atlamál) 105 Proportions of the story 105 A third version of the story in the Lament of Oddrun (Oddrúnargrátr) 107 The Death of Ermanaric (Hamðismál) 109 The Northern idylls of the heroines (Oddrun, Gudrun)—the Old Lay of Gudrun, or Gudrun's story to Theodoric 109 The Lay of Gudrun (Guðrúnarkviða)—Gudrun's sorrow for Sigurd 111 The refrain 111 Gudrun's Chain of Woe (Tregrof Guðrúnar) 111 The Ordeal of Gudrun, an episodic lay 111 Poems in dialogue, without narrative—
(1) Dialogues in the common epic measure—Balder's Doom, Dialogues of Sigurd, Angantyr—explanations
in prose, between the dialogues
(2) Dialogues in the gnomic or elegiac measure:
(a) vituperative debates—Lokasenna, Harbarzlióð (in irregular verse), Atli and Rimgerd
(b) Dialogues implying action—The Wooing of Frey (Skírnismál)  
 
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114 Svipdag and Menglad (Grógaldr, Fiölsvinnsmál)