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Title: Tales of Romance

Author: Anonymous

Editor: Andrew Lang

Illustrator: H. J. Ford
Lancelot Speed

Release Date: July 14, 2010 [EBook #33152]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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[Illustration: Cover art]

[Frontispiece: SLAGFID PURSUES THE WRAITH. _See p._ 60.]

TALES OF ROMANCE

BASED ON TALES IN THE
BOOK OF ROMANCE EDITED
BY ANDREW LANG

WITH 4 COLOURED PLATES AND 15 OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS
By H. J. FORD AND LANCELOT SPEED

_NEW IMPRESSION_

LONGMANS, GREEN AND CO.

39 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON

FOURTH AVENUE & 30TH STREET, NEW YORK

BOMBAY, CALCUTTA, AND MADRAS

1919

CONTENTS.

The Story of Robin Hood

Wayland the Smith

Some Adventures of William Short Nose

The Sword Excalibur

How Grettir the Strong Became an Outlaw

Death of Grettir the Strong

ILLUSTRATIONS.

COLOURED PLATES.

Slagfid pursues the Wraith over the Mountain . . . . . . _Frontispiece_

The Chariot of Freya

Alix kisses Rainouart

Arthur meets the Lady of the Lake and gets the Sword Excalibur

ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT.

Robin Hood's meeting with Little John

The Knight repays the Four Hundred Pounds

When the Sheriff saw his own vessels, his appetite went from him

Friar Tuck upsets Robin Hood

"There is pith in your arm," said Robin Hood

Robin Hood shoots his Last Arrow

The Three Women by the Stream

Wayland mocked by the Queen and Banvilda

The Merman warns Banvilda in vain

Vivian's Last Confession

The Captives--William Short Nose rides to the Rescue

The Lady Alix stays the wrath of William Short Nose

The Lady Gibourc with Rainouart in the Kitchen

Rainouart stops the Cowards

Grettir overthrows Thorir Redbeard

THE STORY OF ROBIN HOOD.

PART I.

Many hundreds of years ago, when the Plantagenets were kings, England
was so covered with woods, that a squirrel was said to be able to hop
from tree to tree from the Severn to the Humber.

It must have been very