H. A. Guerber

Legends of the Middle Ages


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       H. A. Guerber

      Legends of the Middle Ages

      Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664616371

       LEGENDS OF THE MIDDLE AGES.

       CHAPTER I.

       BEOWULF.

       CHAPTER II.

       GUDRUN.

       CHAPTER III.

       REYNARD THE FOX.

       CHAPTER IV.

       THE NIBELUNGENLIED.

       CHAPTER V.

       LANGOBARDIAN CYCLE OF MYTHS.

       CHAPTER VI.

       THE AMBLINGS.

       CHAPTER VII.

       DIETRICH VON BERN.

       CHAPTER VIII.

       CHARLEMAGNE AND HIS PALADINS.

       CHAPTER IX.

       THE SONS OF AYMON.

       CHAPTER X.

       HUON OF BORDEAUX.

       CHAPTER XI.

       TITUREL AND THE HOLY GRAIL.

       CHAPTER XII.

       MERLIN.

       CHAPTER XIII.

       THE ROUND TABLE.

       CHAPTER XIV.

       TRISTAN AND ISEULT.

       CHAPTER XV.

       THE STORY OF FRITHIOF.

       CHAPTER XVI.

       RAGNAR LODBROK.

       CHAPTER XVII.

       THE CID.

       CHAPTER XVIII.

       GENERAL SURVEY OF ROMANCE LITERATURE.

       INDEX TO POETICAL QUOTATIONS.

       GLOSSARY AND INDEX.

       ADVERTISEMENTS

       OUTLINES FOR REVIEW IN HISTORY

       A SOURCE BOOK OF MEDIAEVAL HISTORY

       ESSENTIALS IN ENGLISH HISTORY

       WEBSTER'S SECONDARY SCHOOL DICTIONARY

       PUPIL'S NOTEBOOKS AND STUDY OUTLINES IN HISTORY

       ESSENTIALS OF BIOLOGY

       SHARPE'S LABORATORY MANUAL IN BIOLOGY

       GARNER'S GOVERNMENT IN THE UNITED STATES

       AMERICAN POEMS

       ENGLISH POEMS

       DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGE TEXTBOOKS

      PREFACE.

      The object of this work is to familiarize young students with the legends which form the staple of mediaeval literature.

      While they may owe more than is apparent at first sight to the classical writings of the palmy days of Greece and Rome, these legends are very characteristic of the people who told them, and they are the best exponents of the customs, manners, and beliefs of the time to which they belong. They have been repeated in poetry and prose with endless variations, and some of our greatest modern writers have deemed them worthy of a new dress, as is seen in Tennyson's "Idyls of the King," Goethe's "Reineke Fuchs," Tegnér's "Frithiof Saga," Wieland's "Oberon," Morris's "Story of Sigurd," and many shorter works by these and less noted writers.

      These mediaeval legends form a sort of literary quarry, from which, consciously or unconsciously, each writer takes some stones wherewith to build his own edifice. Many allusions in the literature of our own day lose much of their force simply because these legends are not