Thomas Bulfinch's whole mythic world — the gods of Olympus, King Arthur's Round Table, the Mabinogeon, Beowulf and the paladins of Charlemagne — told as stories, the way 1913 read them.

Cuchulain, Champion of Ireland

2 pages in this part of The Outline of Mythology.

Cuchulain, Champion of Ireland

AMONG all the early literatures of Europe, there are two which, at exactly opposite corners of the continent, display most strikingly…

Cuchulain, Champion of Ireland: Laegire

As Laegire and Conall claimed that this test was an unfair one, Ailill sent the three rivals to Curoi of Kerry, a just and wise man, who…

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