""CONTENTS ""; ""LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ""; ""PREFACE ""; ""LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS ""; ""Introduction""; ""The Concept of Germanic Antiquity""; ""Origo Gentis: The Literature of Germanic Origins""; ""Germania Romana""; ""Germanic Religion and the Conversion to Christianity""; ""Orality""; ""Runic""; ""Gothic""; ""Old Norse-Icelandic Literature""; ""Old English""; ""Old High German and Continental Old Low German""; ""The Old Saxon Heliand""; ""BIBLIOGRAPHY ""; ""NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS ""; ""INDEX ""