CONTENTS
STORIES OF THE DAYS OF KING ARTHUR.
CHAPTER II. HOW ARTHUR GOT HIS CROWN, HIS QUEEN,AND THE ROUND TABLE.
CHAPTER III. THE DEEDS AND DEATH OF BALIN
CHAPTER IV. THE ADVENTURE OF THE THE HART, THEHOUND, AND THE LADY
CHAPTER V. THE EVIL DEVICES OF MORGAN LE FAY.
CHAPTER VI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE THREE KNIGHTSAND THE THREE DAMSELS,
CHAPTER VIII SIR GAWAINE AND THE GREEN KNIGHT.
CHAPTER IX. SIR BEAUMAINS’ QUEST
CHAPTER XII. SIR EWAINE AND THE ADVENTURE OF THEFOUNTAIN.
CHAPTER XIII. THE TOURNAMENT OF LONAZEP.
CHAPTER XIV. THE END OF THE HISTORY OF THE ROUNDTABLE, AND THE PASSING OF ARTHUR
NO other merit or importance is claimed for this book than that of acompilation; but it is, so far as the writer is aware, the most completeepitome of the Arthurian Legends that has yet been prepared for the use ofyoung readers. More than one modernized version of the work of Sir ThomasMallory has been published; but every student of the legends will be awarethat there were many of which Mallory, in the compilation of hisnarrative, took no account; and the substance of several of these has beenembodied in the present work. For the story of Merlin, recourse has beenhad to the version of the old romance given by Ellis in his “Early EnglishMetrical Romances.” The quaint story of Sir Gawaine and the Green Knightis adapted from the edition of that legend which is included among thepublications of the Early English Text Society; while to Lady CharlotteGuest’s “Mabinogion” the writer is indebted for the story of Geraint andEnid, and also for the romance of Ewaine and the Lady of the Fountain.
It is obvious that in a single volume of the bulk of the present therecould not be included more than a selection from the great mass of legendswhich during several centuries accumulated round the mighty though shadowyfigure of Arthur. The aim of the writer has been to make choice of such ofthese stories and traditions as were most likely to captivate theimagination or excite the attention of the boy-readers of this generation;to cast them, so far as possible, into the shape of a connected narrative