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 Tournament

8 pages in this part of The Outline of Mythology.

The Tournament

IT was the month of May, and the feast of Pentecost. Charlemagne had ordered magnificent festivities, and summoned to them, besides his…

The Tournament: Angelica

Now it must be stated that this Angelica and her brother, who called himself Uberto, but whose real name was Argalia, were the children of…

The Tournament: Charlemagne

When Angelica ceased speaking she knelt before the king and awaited his answer, and everybody gazed on her with admiration. Orlando…

The Tournament: Malagigi

As soon as she was gone Malagigi consulted his book, and found out the whole plot of the vile, infidel king, Galafron, as we have explained…

The Tournament: Astolpho

While these things were going on all was uproar at Paris, since Orlando insisted upon being the first to try the adventure at the stair of…

The Tournament: Ferrau

The violent Ferrau had the next chance in the encounter, and was thrown no less speedily than Astolpho; but he did not so easily put up…

The Tournament: Rinaldo

The paladin Rinaldo, on learning the issue of the combat of Ferrau and the stranger, galloped after the fair fugitive in an agony of love…

The Tournament: Orlando

As Angelica thus lay, fortune conducted Orlando to the same place. The attitude in which she was sleeping was so lovely that it is not to…

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