1 Swimming and Diving in the Early Middle Ages 2 Aquatic Feats of the Heroes of Sagas and Epic 3 Free-Diving Heroes of Medieval Legend 4 Swimming and Free-Diving in Northern European Histories 9 1 Medieval Salvage Diving in Law and Practice 2 Free-Diving for Pearls in the Middle Ages 3 Free-Diving for Coral in the Middle Ages 4 Dante’s Free-Diver Simile part 3: The Renaissance Conceptualization of Swimming and Free-Diving 10 1 The Intuition: Italian Treatises on Education in the Humanities 2 The Imprimatur: The Adages of Erasmus 3 The Innovator: Wynman’s Latin Dialogue on How to Swim 11 1 Digby’s Dedication to Richard Wortley 2 Why: Digby’s Rationale for Swimming as an Art