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.

Gawain's Adventure

2 pages in this part of The Outline of Mythology.

Gawain's Adventure

IT befell that, as Gawain went forth one day with King Arthur, he perceived him to be very sad and sorrowful. And Gawain was much grieved…

Gawain's Adventure: Countess

And they all proceeded to the castle of the Countess of the Fountain, and the banquet which had been three years preparing was consumed in…

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