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The Heroic Age

Chapter 1: THE HEROIC AGE
By H. Munro Chadwick
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A comparative study analyzes early Teutonic and Greek heroic poetry alongside the social and historical conditions that produced it. The author surveys Teutonic narrative traditions, their distribution, antiquity, modes of performance, and the mixture of historical, mythical, supernatural, and fictional elements they contain. He then examines Greek epic and related minstrelsy, weighing similar features despite scarcer external evidence. A concluding section identifies common characteristics across the two corpora and argues that parallels stem from analogous social conditions during corresponding heroic ages. Final chapters consider implications for society, government, religion, and the antecedent causes of those formative periods.

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Title: The Heroic Age

Author: H. Munro Chadwick

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Cambridge Archaeological and Ethnological Series

THE HEROIC AGE

MAP OF CENTRAL EUROPE

illustrating the Heroic Age of the Teutonic Peoples

Where the same name occurs both in capitals and italics the former denote a position occupied in the early part of the Heroic Age, while the latter mark a change or extension of territories.

THE HEROIC AGE

BY

H. MUNRO CHADWICK

Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge

Cambridge:
at the University Press
1912
Reprinted
1967

Published by the Syndics of the Cambridge University Press
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PUBLISHER'S NOTE

Cambridge University Press Library Editions are reissues of out-of-print standard works from the Cambridge catalogue. The texts are unrevised and, apart from minor corrections, reproduce the latest published edition.

First published 1912
Reprinted 1967

First printed in Great Britain at the University Printing House, Cambridge
Reprinted in the United States of America
Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number: 13-13081