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Dragons, Elves and Heroes
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A glowing anthology of gems from the ancient writers, including excerpts from:
The Volsunga Saga
Beowulf
The Mabinogion
The Shah-Namah
The Kalevala
and many, many more.
The companion volume to "The Young Magicians." Edited and with introduction and notes by Lin Carter
Contents:
- 1 - Introduction: Over the Hills and Far Away - essay by Lin Carter
- 10 - The Ogre - (1961) - short story by unknown
- 30 - The High History of the Sword Gram - [Volsungs] - (1870) - short story by unknown
- 54 - Manawyddan Son of the Boundless - (1930) - short story by Kenneth Morris
- 64 - Puck's Song - (1905) - poem by Rudyard Kipling
- 67 - Barrow-Wight - juvenile - (1890) - short story by Sabine Baring-Gould [as by S. Baring-Gould]
- 73 - Fingal at the Siege of Carric-Thura - poem by James Macpherson
- 83 - The Sword of Avalon (excerpt from Le Morte d'Arthur) - short fiction by Sir Thomas Malory
- 98 - Tom O'Bedlam's Song - poem by Anonymous
- 102 - The Last Giant of the Elder Age - (1886) - short story by unknown (variant of Ilya of Murom the Peasant Hero, and Hero Svyatogor)
- 112 - The Lost Words of Power - poem by unknown
- 125 - Wonderful Things Beyond Cathay - (1895) - short story by unknown
- 135 - Prospero Evokes the Air Spirits (excerpt from The Tempest) - poem by William Shakespeare
- 138 - The Lords of Faerie (excerpt from The Faerie Queen) - (1953) - short fiction by Edmund Spenser
- 144 - Tales of the Wisdom of the Ancients - (1959) - short story by unknown
- 160 - The Magical Palace of Darkness (excerpt from Palmerin of England) - [Amadis de Gaula] - (1807) - short story by Francisco de Moraes
- 178 - Rustum Against the City of Demons - short story by Firdausi
- 197 - Childe Rolande to the Dark Tower Came - (1855) - poem by Robert Browning
- 203 - The Princess of Babylon (abridged) - (1885) - novella by Voltaire
- 275 - The Horns of Elfland - (1909) - poem by Alfred Tennyson [as by Alfred Lord Tennyson]
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