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Dragons, Elves, and Heroes

by Lin Carter (Editor)

Other authors: Robert Browning (Contributor), Francisco de Moraes (Contributor), Firdausi (Contributor), Rudyard Kipling (Contributor), James Macpherson (Contributor)6 more, Thomas Malory (Contributor), Kenneth Morris (Contributor), William Shakespeare (Contributor), Edmund Spenser (Contributor), Alfred Lord Tennyson (Contributor), Francois Voltaire (Contributor)

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Carter, LinEditorprimary authorall editionsconfirmed
Browning, RobertContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
de Moraes, FranciscoContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
FirdausiContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Kipling, RudyardContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Macpherson, JamesContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Malory, ThomasContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Morris, KennethContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Shakespeare, WilliamContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
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CONTENTS:
"Introduction: Over the Hills and Far Away" (Lin Carter)
"The Ogre" - from Beowulf, translated by Norma Lorre Goodrich
"The High History of the Sword Gram" - from the Völsunga saga, translated by William Morris
"Manawyddan Son of the Boundless" - from the Mabinogion, retold by Kenneth Morris
"Puck's Song" (poem) - from Puck of Pook's Hill, by Rudyard Kipling
"Barrow-Wight" - from The Grettir Saga, translated by S. Baring-Gould
"Fingal at the Siege of Carric-thura" - from The Poems of Ossian, by James Macpherson
"The Sword of Avalon" - from Le Morte d'Arthur, by Thomas Malory
"Tom O'Bedlam's Song" (poem), Anonymous
"The Last Giant of the Elder Age" - from The Kiev Cycle, translated by Isabel Florence Hapgood
"The Lost Words of Power" (poem) - from the Kalevala, translated by John Martin Crawford
"Wonderful Things Beyond Cathay" - from Mandeville's Travels, edited by Arthur Layard
"Prospero Evokes the Air Spirits" (poem) - from The Tempest, by William Shakespeare
"The Lords of Faerie" - from The Faerie Queene, by Edmund Spenser
"Tales of the Wisdom of the Ancients" - from The Gesta Romanorum, translated by Charles Swan and revised by Wynnard Hooper
"The Magical Palace of Darkness" - from Palmerin of England, by Francisco de Moraes
"Rustum Against the City of Demons" - from The Shah-Namah of Firdausi, in a version by Lin Carter
"Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" (poem), by Robert Browning
"The Princess of Babylon" - from The Romances of Voltaire
"The Horns of Elfland" (poem), by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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