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Contains:
(ALL selections are prose retelling excerpts (some by James Baldwin or Paidric Colum) from:
"The Odyssey"
"Rustem and Sohrab (from the ancient Persian epic "Shah-Nameh")
"The Forging of the Sampo" (from the Finnish epic "The Kalevala")
"The Song of Roland"
"The Chronicle of the Cid"
"Beowulf"
King Arthur and the Round Table
"The Hunting of the Boar" (a King Arthur story from the Welsh epic "Mabinogion")
"Finn and Oisin" and "Cuchulain" Finnish epics)
Robin Hood)
(ALL selections are prose retelling excerpts (some by James Baldwin or Paidric Colum) from:
"The Odyssey"
"Rustem and Sohrab (from the ancient Persian epic "Shah-Nameh")
"The Forging of the Sampo" (from the Finnish epic "The Kalevala")
"The Song of Roland"
"The Chronicle of the Cid"
"Beowulf"
King Arthur and the Round Table
"The Hunting of the Boar" (a King Arthur story from the Welsh epic "Mabinogion")
"Finn and Oisin" and "Cuchulain" Finnish epics)
Robin Hood)
- GenresChildrens
377 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1938
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August 12, 2021
I'll tell you how wonderful this collection of stories is. It is so wonderful that I am being drawn into reading, or re-reading, full versions of these books. There are excerpts here from Homer's Odyssey, which, as it happens, I recently re-read. There are excerpts from The Song of Roland, which led me to start reading Dorothy Sayers' translation of the entire work. There are excerpts from Beowulf, and I'll be getting out my copy soon. Any collection of readings that leads you on to more reading is a great thing!
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