Myth, Legend, Saga, and Epic

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Table of Contents

Mythology and Legend

• A Book of Myths by Jean Lang
• The Book of Nature Myths by Florence Holbrook, 1902
• 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
• Famous Tales of Fact and Fancy, Myths and LEgends of the Nations of the World translated and edited by Logan Marshall
• 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 that Every Child Should Know edited by Hamilton Wright Mabie
• 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
• Stories and Legends of Travel and History for Children by Grace Greenwood
• With Spurs of Gold: Heroes of Chivalry and Their Deeds by Frances Nimmo Greene and Colly William Kirk
• 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
• The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought by Alexander Francis Chamberlain
• The Evolution of the Dragon by G. Elliot Smith
• The Folk-Lore of Plants by T.F. Thiselton-Dyer, 1889
• From Ritual to Romance by Jessie Weston
• Myth and Science, an Essay by Tito Vignoli
• Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning by Edward Carpenter
• Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel by Ignatius Donnelly
• The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria by w. Scott-Elliot
• 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

• The Adventures of Daniel Boone, the Kentucky Rifleman
• Myths and Legends of Our New Possessions and Protectorate by Charles Skinner

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

• Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic by Thomas Higginson

• 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

• 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
• The Holy Grail by Sir Thomas Malory from the Caxton Edition of the Morte D'Arthur
• 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
• Hero-Myths and Legends of the British Race by M.I. Ebbutt
• The History of Sir Richard Whittington by T.H.
• Idylls of the King by Alfred Lord Tennyson
• King Arthur and His Knights by Maude L. Radford
• King Arthur's Knights: the Tales Re-Told for Boys and Girls by Henry gilbert
• Poetical Works by John Milton (four books in one document)
• Miscellaneous Poems
• Paradise Lost
• Paradise Regained
• Samson Agonistes
• Stories of King Arthur and His Knights, retold from Malory's "Morte dArthur" by U. Waldo Cutler

• Myths and Legends of China by E.T.C. Werner
• Some Chinese Ghosts by Lafcadio Hearn

• 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 Legends for English Children by R. Eivind
• Kalevala, the Finnish national epic,

• in Finnish

in English, translated by John Crawford

• 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)

• The Fall of the Niebelungs
• Folklore and Legends: Germany
• 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
• Siegfried der Held, in German
• Stories of Siegfried Told to the Children by mary macGregor
• 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

• 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
• translated by Theodore Alois Buckley
• 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
• translated by William Cowper
• L'Odyssee  translated to French by Charles-Rene-Marie Leconte de l'Isle
• Odysseus the Hero of Ithaca by Mary E. Burt
• Homer's Odyssey, a Commentary by Denton Snider
• Making Sense of the Myths Behind Greek Tragedy by Richard Seltzer
• Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E.M. Berens
• Stories from the Greek Tragedians by Alfred Church
• Tales of Troy by Andrew Lang
• Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

• The Hawaiian Romance of Laiekowai by Martha Warren Beckwith
• The Unwritten Literature of Hawaii, translated by Nathaniel Emerson

• Genesis
• Legends of Babylon and Egypt in Relation to Hebrew Tradition by Leonard King

• 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

• 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

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

• 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

• Tales of Old Japan by Lord Redesdale

• Algonquin Indian Tales, collected by Egerton Young
• Blackfeet Indian Stories by George Bird Grinnell
• Folk-Lore and Legends: North American Indian
• In the Time That Was, being the first volume in a series of legends of the tribe of Alaskan Indians known as the Chlikats of the Klingats by J. Frederic Thorne
• Indian Legends and Other Poems by Mary Gardiner Horsford
• Indian Legends of Minnesota compiled by Mrs. Cordenio Severance
• Indian Story and Song from North America by Alice C. Fletcher
• The Myth of Hiawatha and other Oral Legends, Mythologic and Allegoric, of the North American Indians by henry R. Schoolcraft
• Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Hochelagans and Mohawks by W.D. Lighthall
• Myths and Legends of the Great Plains selected by katharine Berry Judson
• Myths and Legends of the Sioux by Mrs. marie L. Mclaughlin
• Sketch of the Mythology of the North American Indians by J.W. Powell
• Stories the Iroquois Tell Their Children by Mabel Powers
• Thirty Indian Legends by Margaret Bemister
• The Unwritten Literature of the Hopi by Hattie Greene Lockert

• 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
• Myths of the Norsemen from the Eddas and Sagas by H.A. Guerber
• 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 Sagas of Olaf Tryggvason and of Harald the Tyrant
• The Story of Burnt Njal
• The Story of Frithiof the Bold translated by Eirkr magnusson and William Morris
• The Story of Grettir the Strong, translated by Eirikr Magnuson and William Morris
• The Story of Gunnlaug the Worm-Tongue and Raven the Skald translated by Eirkr Magnusson 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
• Viking Tales by Jennie Hall
• Volsunga Saga, with excerpts from the Poetic Edda, anonymous, 13th century, in English
• The Younger Edda

• Anting-Anting Stories and Other Strange Tales of the Filipinos by Sargent Kayme

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

• Folk-Lore and Legends of Scotland
• Sir Walter Scott
• Ivanhoe
• The Lady of the Lake

• The Lay of the Cid, translated by Selden Stone and Leonard Bacon
• Miguel de Cervantes
• Don Quixote
• in English
• in Spanish

• 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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