The Outline of Mythology

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.

Romances

2 pages in this part of The Outline of Mythology.

Romances

In ages when there were no books, when noblemen and princes themselves could not read, history or tradition was monopolized by the…

Romances: French

With regard to the derivation of the word "Romance," we trace it to the fact that the dialects which were formed in Western Europe, from…

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