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Title: Myths and Legends of All Nations
Famous Stories from the Greek, German, English, Spanish,
Scandinavian, Danish, French, Russian, Bohemian, Italian
and other sources

Author: Various

Editor: Logan Marshall

Translator: Logan Marshall

Release Date: March 4, 2007 [EBook #20740]

Language: English

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MYTHS AND LEGENDS
OF ALL NATIONS

FAMOUS STORIES

FROM THE GREEK, GERMAN, ENGLISH, SPANISH
SCANDINAVIAN, DANISH, FRENCH
RUSSIAN, BOHEMIAN, ITALIAN
AND OTHER SOURCES

TRANSLATED AND EDITED BY
LOGAN MARSHALL

ILLUSTRATED
WITH ORIGINAL COLORED PLATES

THE JOHN C. WINSTON COMPANY, PHILADELPHIA

PRINTED IN U. S. A.

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PREFACE

The myths and legends here gathered together have appealed and will
continue to appeal to every age. Nowhere in the realm of fiction are
there stories to compare with those which took form centuries ago when
the race was in its childhood--stories so intimately connected with
the life and history and religion of the great peoples of antiquity
that they have become an integral part of our own civilization, a
heritage of wealth to every child that is born into the world.

The historic basis of the tales is slight; yet who can think of the
Greeks without remembering the story of Troy, or of Rome without a
backward glance at AEneas, fabled founder of the race and hero of
Virgil's world-famous Latin epic? Any understanding of German
civilization would be incomplete without knowledge of the mythical
prince Siegfried, hero of the earliest literature of the Teutonic
people, finally immortalized in the nineteenth century through the
musical dr