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.

Sir Gawain's Marriage

2 pages in this part of The Outline of Mythology.

Sir Gawain's Marriage

Once upon a time King Arthur held his court in merry Carlisle, when a damsel came before him and craved a boon. It was for vengeance upon a…

Sir Gawain's Marriage: Arthur

King Arthur hastened to the grim baron's castle and told him one by one all the answers which he had received from his various advisers…

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