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.

The Adventure of the Cart

2 pages in this part of The Outline of Mythology.

The Adventure of the Cart

IT befell in the month of May, Queen Guenever called to her knights of the Table Round, and gave them warning that early upon the morrow…

The Adventure of the Cart: Launcelot

Now at this time carts were little used except for carrying offal and for conveying criminals to execution. But Sir Launcelot took no…

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