Index:The book of romance.djvu

Title The book of romance
Author Mrs Lang
Editor Andrew Lang
Illustrator Henry Justice Ford
Year 1902
Publisher Longmans, Green, and co.
Location New York [etc.]
Source djvu
Progress Proofread—All pages of the work proper are proofread, but not all are validated
Transclusion Fully transcluded
OCLC 1041626503
Pages (key to Page Status)
Cover i ii frontispiece Title vi vii vi vii viii ix x xi xii xiii xiv 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 f14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 f77 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 f106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 f132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 f275 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 300 f301 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 f318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 341 342 343 344 345 346 347 348 349 350 351 352 353 354 355 356 357 358 359 360 361 362 363 364 365 366 367 368 369 370 371 372 373 374 375 376 377 378 379 380 381 382 383 384 Cover

CONTENTS


  PAGE
The Drawing of the Sword 3
The Questing Beast 9
The Sword Excalibur 14
The Story of Sir Balin 16
How the Round Table began 25
The Passing of Merlin 31
How Morgan Le Fay tried to kill King Arthur 33
What Beaumains asked of the King 38
The Quest of the Holy Graal 64
The Fight for the Queen 102
The Fair Maid of Astolat 113
Lancelot and Guenevere 132
The End of it All 160
The Battle of Roncevalles 177
The Pursuit of Diarmid 215
Some Adventures of William Short Nose 253
Wayland the Smith 293
The Story of Robin Hood 323
The Story of Grettir the Strong 359


ILLUSTRATIONS


COLOURED PLATES

Lancelot bears off Guenevere (p. 153) Frontispiece
Arthur meets the Lady of the Lake to face p.14
Lancelot at the Chapel 77
Guenevere and Sir Bors. 106
Lancelot brings Guenevere to Arthur. 132
Alix kisses Rainouart 275
Slagfid pursues the Wraith over the Mountains 301
The Chariot of Freya 318


FULL-PAGE PLATES

How Arthur drew the Sword to face p.4
Arthur and the Questing Beast 10
The Death of Balin and Balan 20
Merlin and Vivien 31
Morgan Le Fay casts away the Scabbard 34
Gareth and Linet 42
Linet and the Black Knight 46
The Lady of Lyonesse sees Sir Gareth 54
Sir Galahad opens the Tomb 72
Sir Percivale slays the Serpent 82
Lancelot and the Dwarf 96
Arthur and Guenevere kiss before all the People 108
Elaine ties her Sleeve round Sir Lancelot’s Helmet 116
The Black Barget 128
The Archers threaten Lancelot 138
Sir Mordred 164
Excalibur returns to the Mere 168
Charlemagne 178
Marsile threatens Ganelon with a javelin 184
Roland winds his Horn in the Valley of Roncevalles 202
Grania questions the Druid 216
Diarmid seizes the Giant’s Club 230
Diarmid and Grania in the Quicken Tree 236
The Death of Diarmid 242
Vivian's Last Confession 256
The Lady Alix stays the Wrath of William Short Nose 270
The Lady Giboure with Rainouart in the Kitchen 278
Rainouart stops the Cowards 282
The Three Women by the Stream 204
Wayland mocked by the Queen and Banvilda 310
The Merman warns Banvilda in vain 314
'There is pith in your arm,' said Robin Hood 346
Robin Hood shoots his Last Arrow 354
Grettir feels Karr’s Grip 362
Grettir overthrows Thorie Redbeard 372


IN TEXT

  PAGE
The Damsel warns Sir Balin 19
How Sir Bors was saved from killing his Brother 89
Sir Mador accuses Guenevere 104
Guenevere sends her Page to Lancelot for Help 136
Lancelot comes out of Guenevere’s Room 148
The Dream of Charlemagne 193
The Captives: William Short Nose rides to the Rescue 263
The Witch Thurid cuts a Charm on the Log 381