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.

The Adventure of the Lion

3 pages in this part of The Outline of Mythology.

The Adventure of the Lion

And as Owain one day sat at meat, in the city of Caerleon upon Usk, behold a damsel entered the hall, upon a bay horse,(The custom of…

The Adventure of the Lion: Owain

And the maiden departed from her, and went and poured of the balsam upon Owain, and left the horse and the garments hard by, and went a…

The Adventure of the Lion: Luned

And the next day there came the two pages with a great troop of attendants to take Luned from her cell, and put her to death. And Owain…

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