Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race

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The author says, prefacing the book: In refashioning, for the pleasure of readers of the twentieth century, these versions of ancient tales which have given pleasure to story-lovers of all centuries from the eighth onward, I feel that some explanation of my choice is necessary. Men's conceptions of the heroic change with changing years, and vary with each individual mind; hence it often happens that one person sees in a legend only the central heroism, while another sees only the inartistic deta

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ils of mediæval life which tend to disguise and warp the heroic quality.

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