Legend Land, Vol. 4

Legend Land, Vol. 4 - Being a Further Collection of Some of the Old Tales Told in Those Nearer Western Parts of Britain Served by the Great Western Railway

In it you will find historic and pre-historic romance mingled. Some of its tales are as old as any in our land, tales born of the very ancient belief that saw in Druid stones a human origin. Other stories are romances of much later date, of events almost within the memory of our great-grandparents great-grandparents. Here you will find two legends that come from Shakespeares land, legends that must have been well known to that great lover and teller of old tales. And in the legend of Herne the Hunter you will recognise a story which Shakespeare himself told in The Merry Wives of Windsor. And it was probably an old tale when he repeated it. In King Arthurs Camelot you meet with a very old legend of that great hero of British historical romance; and in the story of Wayland Smith you get an echo of the lore of the old Pagan gods which invading Anglo-Saxon tribes brought to England soon after the Romans left it. Manners and customs change; the old creeds die as the new ones arise, yetand it is very wonderful to realize itsome of the old stories have survived every phase of the passing centuries intolerance of the past, and are told to-day in a form not so very different from that in which they were first narrated by our semi-savage ancestors, over their camp fires in the heart of primeval English forests. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 67176
Author: Barham, G. Basil (George Basil)
Release Date: Jan 16, 2022
Format: eBook
Language: English
Publisher: The Great Western Railway
Publication Date: 1923
Publisher Country: United Kingdom