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Legends of the Middle Ages: Narrated With Special Reference to Literature and Art (Classic Reprint)
Legends of the Middle Ages Narrated With Special Reference to Literature and Art - Classic Reprint Author:H. A. Guerber CHAPTER I. beowulf. " List! we have learnt a tale of other years, Of kings and warrior Danes, a wondrous tale, How aethelings bore them in the brunt of war." Beowulf (Conybeare's tr.). The most ancient relic of literature of the spoken languages of modern Europe is undoubtedly the epic poem "Beowulf," which is supj»osed to have been composed by ... more »the Anglo-Saxons previous to their invasion of England. Although the poem probably belongs to the fifth century, the only existing manuscript is said to date from the ninth or tenth century. This curious work, in rude alliterative verse (for rhyme was introduced in England only after the Norman Conquest), is the most valuable old English manuscript in the British Museum. Although much damaged by fire, it has been carefully studied by learned men. They have patiently restored the poem, the story of which is as follows: Hrothgar (the modern Roger), King of Denmark, was a descendant of Odin, being the third m
Table of Contents
CONTENTS; I Beowulf 9; II GUDRUN 22; III Reynard the Fox 3S; IV The Nibelungenlied S3; V Laxgobardian Cycle of Myths 86; VI The Amelings ioo; VII Dietrich von Bern "o; VIII Charlemagne and his Paladins 129; IX The Sons of Aymon 152; X Huox of Bordeaux 163; XI Titurel and the Holy Grail 182; XII Merlin,204; XIII The Round Table 214; XIV Tristan and Iseult 234; XV The Story of Frithiop 246; XVI Racnar Lodbrok 269; XVII The Cid 282; XVIII General Survey of Romance Literature 301
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