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 Round Table

3 pages in this part of The Outline of Mythology.

The Round Table

THE famous enchanter, Merlin, had exerted all his skill in fabricating the Round Table. Of the seats which surrounded it he had constructed…

The Round Table: Tristram

One of the principal seats, that of Moraunt of Ireland, had been vacant ten years, and his name still remained over it ever since the time…

The Round Table: Breuse

Breuse the Pitiless, who like most other caitiffs had felt the weight of Tristram's arm, and hated him accordingly, at hearing his name…

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