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 Orc

3 pages in this part of The Outline of Mythology.

The Orc

WE left the charming Angelica at the moment when, in her flight from her contending lovers, Sacripant and Rinaldo, she met an aged hermit…

The Orc: Angelica

Angelica rode on her way without suspicion, but when arrived at the shore, the demon urged the animal head-long into the water. Angelica in…

The Orc: Rogero

Meanwhile Rogero, despairing of seeing Angelica again, returned to the tree where he had left his winged horse, but had the mortification…

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