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Title: Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race

Author: Maud Isabel Ebbutt

Release Date: May 17, 2008 [EBook #25502]

Language: English

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names in the text. These include some characters with diacritical
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HERO-MYTHS & LEGENDS
OF THE BRITISH RACE

BY
M. I. EBBUTT M. A.

WITH FIFTY-ONE FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS BY

J. H. F. BACON A.R.A. BYAM SHAW
W. H. MARGETSON R.I. GERTRUDE
DEMAIN HAMMOND AND OTHERS

[Illustration]

GEORGE G. HARRAP & COMPANY LTD.
LONDON CALCUTTA SYDNEY

[Illustration: Robin Hood and the Black Monk

William Sewell

[_Page 331_]]

_First published August 1910_
_by GEORGE G. HARRAP & CO._
_39-41 Parker Street, Kingsway, London, W.C.2_

_Reprinted: October 1910_
_September 1911_
_December 1914_
_May 1916_
_December 1917_
_February 1920_
_June 1924_

_Printed in Great Britain at THE BALLANTYNE PRESS by_
SPOTTISWOODE, BALLANTYNE & CO. LTD.
_Colchester, London & Eton_

TO

MISS JULIA KENNEDY

IN TOKEN OF THE ADMIRATION
AND AFFECTION OF AN
OLD PUPIL
THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED

PREFACE

In refashioning, for the pleasure of readers of the twentieth century,
these versions of ancient tales which have given pleasure to
story-lovers of all centuries from the eighth onward, I feel that some
explanation of my choice is necessary. Men's conceptions of the h