H. A. Guerber

INTRODUCTION IF there is a phrase in our tongue which connotes the atmosphere of romance it is that of " the Middle Ages." Do but mention the words, and it is as another opening of Pandora's box. Out there streams a retinue of goodly knights, each armed cap-h-picy each bearing in his helmet some...

PREFACE The myths of Grcece and Rome have inspired so much of the best thought in English literature that a knowledge of them is often essential to the understanding of what we read. " When Byron calls Rome," says Thomas Bulfinch, "'the Niobe of nations,' or says of Venice, ' She looks a...

INTRODUCTION r HE prime importance of t'he rude fragments of poetry preserved in early Icelandic literature zvill now be dispzited by none, but there has been until recent times an extraordinary indifference to the wealth of religious tradition and mythical lore which they cotUain. The long...