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 War in Africa

6 pages in this part of The Outline of Mythology.

The War in Africa

WHEN Astolpho had descended to the earth with the precious phial, St. John showed him a plant of marvellous virtues, with which he told him…

The War in Africa: Astolpho

Keeping the course of the river Nile, he soon arrived at the capital of Abyssinia, and rejoined Senapus. The joy of the king was great when…

The War in Africa: Rinaldo

We must now return to the camp of the Christians, which lay before Arles, to which city the Saracens had retired after being defeated in a…

The War in Africa: Rogero

The Saracens selected Rogero for their champion. Rogero was still in the Saracen camp, kept there by honor alone, for his mind had been…

The War in Africa: Orlando

We will now return to Orlando, whom we last heard of as furiously mad, and doing a thousand acts of violence in his senseless rage. One day…

The War in Africa: Sobrino

Agramant approved this advice except in one particular. "It is for me," said he, "to combat Orlando; I cannot with honor devolve that duty…

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