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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
GEORGE G. HARRAP & COMPANY LTD.
LONDON CALCUTTA SYDNEY
Robin Hood and the Black Monk
William Sewell
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| 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 thetwentieth century, these versions of ancient taleswhich have given pleasure to story-lovers of allcenturies from the eighth onward, I feel that someexplanation of my choice is necessary. Men’s conceptionsof the heroic change with changing years, and varywith each individual mind; hence it often happens thatone person sees in a legend only the central heroism,while another sees only the inartistic details of mediævallife which tend to disguise and warp the heroic quality.
It may be that to some people the heroes I havechosen do not seem heroic, but there is no doubt thatto the age and generation which wrote or sang of themthey ap