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Table of Contents
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http://samizdat.stores.yahoo.net/myth.html General
Mythology and Legend
Bulfinch's Mythology
The Age of Fable
The Age of Chivalry
Legends of Charlemagne
Chronicle and Romance: Froissart, Malory, Holinshed, from the Harvard ClassicsClassic
Myths, retold by Mary Catherine Judd
Custom and Myth by Andrew Lang
Legends that Every Child Should Know, edited by Hamlton Wright Mabie
Legends of the Middle Ages by H.A. Guerber
Modern Mythology by Andrew Lang
Myths and Legends of All Nations, translated by Logan Marshall
Myths and Myth-Makers by John Fiske
Myth, Ritual and Religion by Andrew Lang
A New System or an Analysis of Antient Mythology by Jacob Bryant, 1807
volume 1
volume 2
Young Folk's Treasury, Volume 3: Classic Tales and Old Fashioned Stories,
edited by Hamilton Wright Mabie
Interpretation of Mythology
Atlantis: the Antediluvian World by Ignatius Donnelly
From Ritual to Romance by Jessie Weston
Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning by Edward Carpenter
Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel by Ignatius Donnelly
Epic
The Book of the Epic by H.A. Buerber
The Epic: an Essay by Lacelles Abercombie, 1914
Epic and Romance, essays on medieval literature by W.P. Ker
National Epics by Kate Milner Rabb
Arabic
Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights, complete) translated
by Richard Burton
Volume 1
Volume 2
Volume 3
Volume 4
Volume 5
Volume 6
Volume 7
Volume 8
Volume 9
Volume 10
Supplement Volume1
Supplement Volume 2
Supplement Volume 3
Supplement Volume 4
Supplement Volume 5
Supplement Volume 6
Atlantic Islands
Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic by Thomas Higginson
Babylonian and Assyrian
Babylonian and Assyrian Literature, Comprising the Epic of Izdubar, Hymns,
Tablets and Cuneiform Inscriptions with an introduction by Epiphanius Wilson
The Epic of Gilgamesh by Stephen Langdon
An Old Babylonian Version of the Gilgamesh Epic, edited by Morris Jastrow
The Babylonian Legends of the Creation and the Fiht Between Bel and the
Dragon, as told by Assyrian tablets from Nineveh
The Babylonian Story of the Deluge, as told by Assyrian Tablets from
Nineveh
Legends of Babylon and Egypt in Relation to Hebrew Tradition by Leonard
King
Myths of Babylonia and Assyra by Donald MacKenzie
The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Theophilus Pinches
British
Beowulf, translated by Gummere
Beowulf, translated by Lesslie Hall
The Relation of the Hrolfs Saga and the Bjarkarimur to Beowulf by Oscar
Olson
Arthur, a Short Sketch of His Life and History in English Verse of the
First Half of the Fifteenth Century by Frederick J. Furnivall
Le Morte Darthur by Sir Thomas Malory, in English
volume 1
volume 2
Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight (c. 1360) edited by Richard Morris
Howard Pyle
The Book of Pirates
Men of Iron
Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
Otto of the Silver Hand
Story of the Champions of the Round Table
The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser
Dr. Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
Poetical Works by John Milton (four books in one document)
Miscellaneous Poems
Paradise Lost
Paradise Regained
Samson Agonistes
Idylls of the King by Alfred Lord Tennyson
The History of Sir Richard Whittington by T.H.
Egyptian
The Book of the Dead by E.A. Wallis Budge
Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life by E.A. Wallis Budge
Egyptian Tales, translated from the papyri, edited by W. M. Flinders Petrie
first series, IV to XII Dynasty
second series, XVII to XIX Dynasty
Legends of Babylon and Egypt in Relation to Hebrew Tradition by Leonard
King
Legends of the Gods by E.A. Wallis Budge
The Light of Egypt, volume 2, by Thomas Burgoyne
The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians by E.A. Wallis Budge
Finnish
Kalevala, the Finnish national epic,
in Finnish
in English, translated by John Crawford
French
Four Arthurian Romances by Chretien DeTroyes
French Medaeval Romances, from the Lays of Marie de France, translated
by Eugene Mason
High History of the Holy Graal
The Song of Roland, anonymous, in English
The Song of Roland (from the Harvard Classics)
German
Legends of the Rhine by Wilhelm Ruland
Nibelungenlied
in English, translated by George Henry Needler
in English, translator unknown
in modern German, translated by Karl Simrock
The Story of Siegfried by James Baldwin
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Faust
Part 1, in English
Part 1, in German
Part 2, in German
translated by Charles Brooks
translated by Bayard Taylor
Greek
The Argonautica by Apollonius Rhodius, translated by R.C. Seaton
Cerberus, the Dog of Hades: The History of an Idea by Maurice Bloomfield
The Fall of Troy by Quintus of Smyrna
A Fleece of Gold by Charles Stewart Given
Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
The Homeric Hymns, translated by Andrew Lang
Iliad
translated to English by Andrew Lang, Walter Leaf, and Ernest Myers
translated to English by Samuel Butler
translated by Edward Earl of Derby
translated by Alexander Pope
translated by William Cowper
L'Iliade translated to French by Charles-Rene-Marie Leconte de l'Isle
Odyssey
translated to English by Alexander Pope
translated to English by S.H. Butcher and Andrew Lang
translated to English by Samuel Butler
L'Odyssee translated to French by Charles-Rene-Marie Leconte de l'Isle
Making Sense of the Myths Behind Greek Tragedy by Richard Seltzer
Stories from the Greek Tragedians by Alfred Church
Tales of Troy by Andrew Lang
Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Hawaiian
The Hawaiian Romance of Laiekowai by Martha Warren Beckwith
The Unwritten Literature of Hawaii, translated by Nathaniel Emerson
Hebrew
Genesis
Legends of Babylon and Egypt in Relation to Hebrew Tradition by Leonard
King
Indian (India)
Bhagavadgita, Sanatsugatiya and Anugita, translated by Kashinath Trimbak
Telang
The Bhagavad-Gita, translated by Sir Edwin Arnold
Hindoo Tales or Adventures of Ten Princes, translated by P.W. Jacob, 1873
Hindu Tales from the Sanskrit, translated by S.M. Mitra, 1919
Institutes of Vishnu
Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa
Nala and Damayanti and other Poems, translated by Henry MillmanThe Religions
of India by Edward Hopkins
The Religions of India by Edward Washburn Hopkins
Tales of Bengal by S.B. Banerjia
Tales from the Hundu Dramatists by R.N. Dutta
Tales of the Punjab, Folklore of India by Flora Steel
Twenty-two Goblins, translated by Arthur Ryder
Upanishads, translated by F. Max Müller
part 1
part 2
The Upanishads, Translated and Commentated by Swami Paramananda, From the
Original Sanskrit Text
Vikram and the Vampire, a classic Hindu tale of adventure, magic, and romance
by Richard Burton
Irish
The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Tain Bo Cualnge, the Cualnge Cattle-Raid, tanlsated
by Joseph Dunn
The Cattle-Raid of Cualnge, translated by L. Winifred Faraday
Celtic Tales Told to the Children by Louey Chisholm
The Coming of Cuculain by Standish O'Grady
Early Bardic Literature Ireland by Standish O'Grady
Heroic Romances of Ireland, translated by A.H. Leahey
Irish Wonders by D.r. McAnally, Jr.
The Religion of the Ancient Celts by J.A. Macculloch
Italian
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)
La Divina Commedia, in Italian
The Divine Comedy, In English translation:
translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- The Divine Comedy
translated by the Rev. H.F. Cary -- The Vision or Hell, Purgatory, and
Paradise
translated by Charles Eliot Norton
Hell
Purgatory
Paradise
Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533)
Orlando Furioso, in Italian
Orlando Furioso, in English
Torquato Tasso (1544-1595)
Jerusalem Delivered translated to English by Edward Fairfax
Latin
Roman Antiquities and Ancient Mythology for Classical Schools by Charles
K. Dillaway
Lucius Apuleius
The Golden Ass
Virgil
Aeneid
in English
in English, trans.. E. Fairfax Taylor
in Latin
Japanese
Tales of Old Japan by Lord Redesdale
Native American
Algonquin Indian Tales, collected by Egerton Young
Blackfeet Indian Stories by George Bird Grinnell
Folk-Lore and Legends: North American Indian
Indian Legends and Other Poems by Mary Gardiner Horsford
Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Hochelagans and Mohawks by W.D. Lighthall
Sketch of the Mythology of the North American Indians by J.W. Powell
Stories the Iroquois Tell Their Children by Mabel Powers
The Unwritten Literature of the Hopi by Hattie Greene Lockert
Norse
The Death of Balder by Johannes Ewald, translated by George Borrow
The Edda I: The Divine Mythology of the North by Winifred Faraday
The Edda II: The Heroic Mythology fo the North by Winifred Faraday
The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson translated by Benjamin Thorpe
Erik the Red's Saga, translated by J. Sephton
Folk-Lore and Legends Scandinavian by W.W. Gibbings
Laxaela Saga, translated by Muriel Press
The Life and Death of Cormac the Skald, translated by W.G. Collingwood
and J. Stefansen
Northland Heroes by Florence Holbrook
Njal's Saga, anonymous, 13th century, in English
Popular Tales from the Norse by George Dasent
The Relation of the Hrolfs Saga and the Bjarkarimur to Beowulf by Oscar
Olson
Saga of Grettir the Strong, anonymous, 14th century, in English
The Story of Burnt Njal
The Story of Grettir the Strong, translated by Eirikr Magnuson and William
Morris
The Story of Sigurd the Volsung, translated by William Morris
The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs by William
Morris
Volsunga Saga, with excerpts from the Poetic Edda, anonymous, 13th century,
in English
The Younger Edda
Russian
Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace, in English
Book 1
Book 2
Book 3
Book 4
Book 5
Book 6
Book 7
Book 8
Book 9
Book 10
Book 11
Book 12
Book 13
Book 14
Book 15
Scottish
Folk-Lore and Legends of Scotland
Sir Walter Scott
Ivanhoe
The Lady of the Lake
Spanish
The Lay of the Cid, translated by Selden Stone and Leonard Bacon
Miguel de Cervantes
Don Quixote
in English
in Spanish
Welsh
Mabinogion, translated by Lady Charlotte Guest
Mabinogion, translated by Lady Charlotte Guest, edition of 1902
volume 1
volume 2
volume 3
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