Storybook Of The Middle Ages
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site is for readers of all ages searching for tales from medieval England
without the usual difficulties of the early language.
It
includes selections of valiant knights, beautiful princesses, mighty kings
and queens, as well as horrible monsters and evil villains, all set in
the mysterious and imaginative past. |
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Feel
free to read the selections on-line or download them in PDF format.
Beowulf
ASP
PDF
Havelok
the Dane ASP PDF
The
Adventures of Horn ASP PDF
Guy
of Warwick ASP PDF
Bevis
of Hampton ASP PDF
The
Prince in Exile ASP PDF
Emarie
ASP
PDF
King
Orpheo and the Fairies ASP PDF
The
Strange Quest ASP PDF
Sir
Launfal and the Fairy Princess ASP PDF
The Knight with the Lion ASP PDF
The
Marriage of Sir Gawain ASP PDF
The
selections enclosed here are from Harriet Buxton Barbour’s Old English
Tales Retold (1924), with only a small number of changes for the sake of
clarity. (Illustrations were completed by Rodney Thomson for the same edition.)
At
this point, this site includes only Barbour’s works, but the plan is to
include many more medieval tales, all retold in the same easy-to-read style.
As the site develops, there will also be more explanatory notes, and Beowulf,
only told through the second major episode in the story, will be completed.
If
you have any suggestions for other texts or links to include here, please
feel free to email me at necastro@maine.edu.
© 2003 Gerard NeCastro
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