Introduction Epic��Romance��Lay and Ballad��W.P.Ker's Pivotal Role in the History of Scholarship What Can We Leam from EPics and Romances�� Epic and Romance in Welsh and Irish The Hybrid Chansons de geste��An Epic��Romance Compromise�� Beginnings and Endings in the Elegiac Poetry of the Early Medieval North The Icelandic Family Sagas��W.P.Ker and Interpreting the Historical Elements��a Post��Colonial Struggle The Dialogic Town in the Arthurian Romances of Chrtien de Troyes Middle English Romance��The Strange Tale of the English Axemen and the Norman Knights The Epic Scale of Heroic Geographies��Beowulf,Waldere��and Waltharius The Queens of Beowulf Gender��Violence and Community ��Mythology Within Bounds����Heroic Narrative in Eddic Poetry The Narrative Plan of Njal'Saga The Nibelungenlied,Kudrun��Biterolf und Dietleib��Some Observations on the Concept of the Heroic and the��Genre��of Medieval German Heroic Epic The Nibelungenlied and W.P.Ker��Older Philology and the Future of Medieval Studies The Persistence of the Heroic Ideal in Post��Heroic Age Scandinavian Romance Literature Mediterranean Border Epics��Frontier Ethos in Cantar de Mio Cid and Digenes Akrites Representing the Sensorium in Medieval Romance��Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Other Texts Mixture and MiscIlief in a Medieval Irish Heroic Tale Celtic Influence on French Romance Fighting the Giant in French Epic and Romance Arthul Meets Charlemagne��Echoes of chansons de geste in French verse romances from Chrdtien de Troyes to Escanor A View from the Printshop��Malory��Caxton��and Medieval Narrative Form