Baal, king of Tyre,
       Babylonian River, dried up when Phaeton drove the sun chariot,
       Bacchanali a, a feast to Bacchus that was permitted to occur but once in three years, attended by most shameless orgies,
       Bacchanals, devotees and festal dancers of Bacchus,
       Bacchus (Dionysus), god of wine and revelry,
       Badon, battle of, Arthur's final victory over the Saxons,
       Bagdemagus, King, a knight of Arthur's time,
       Baldur, son of Odin, and representing in Norse mythology the sun god,
       Balisardo, Orlando's sword,
       Ban, King of Brittany, ally of Arthur, father of Launcelot,
       Bards, minstrels of Welsh Druids,
       Basilisk SEE Cockatrice
       Baucis, wife of Philemon, visited by Jupiter and Mercury,
       Bayard, wild horse subdued by Rinaldo,
       Beal, Druids' god of life,
       Bedivere, Arthur's knight,
       Bedver, King Arthur's butler, made governor of Normandy,
       Bedwyr, knightly comrade of Geraint,
       Belisarda, Rogero's sword,
       Bellerophon, demigod, conqueror of the Chimaera,
       Bellona, the Roman goddess of war, represented as the sister or wife of Mars,
       Beltane, Druidical fire festival,
       Belus, son of Poseidon (Neptune) and Libya or Eurynome, twin brother of Agenor,
       Bendigeid Vran, King of Britain,
       Beowulf, hero and king of the Swedish Geats,
       Beroe, nurse of Semele,
       Bertha, mother of Orlando,
       Bifrost, rainbow bridge between the earth and Asgard
       Bladud, inventor, builder of the city of Bath,
       Blamor, a knight of Arthur,
       Bleoberis, a knight of Arthur,
       Boeotia, state in ancient Greece, capital city Thebes,
       Bohort, King, a knight of Arthur,
       Bona Dea, a Roman divinity of fertility,
       Bootes, also called Areas, son of Jupiter and Calisto, changed to constellation of Ursa Major,
       Boreas, North wind, son of Aeolus and Aurora,
       Bosporus (Bosphorus), the Cow-ford, named for Io, when as a heifer she crossed that strait,
       Bradamante, sister to Rinaldo, a female warrior,
       Brademagus, King, father of Sir Maleagans,
       Bragi, Norse god of poetry,
       Brahma, the Creator, chief god of Hindu religion,
       Branwen, daughter of Llyr, King of Britain, wife of Mathclch,
       Breciliande, forest of, where Vivian enticed Merlin,
       Brengwain, maid of Isoude the Fair
       Brennus, son of Molmutius, went to Gaul, became King of the Allobroges,
       Breuse, the Pitiless, a caitiff knight,
       Briareus, hundred armed giant,
       Brice, Bishop, sustainer of Arthur when elected king,
       Brigliadoro, Orlando's horse,
       Briseis, captive maid belonging to Achilles,
       Britto, reputed ancestor of British people,
       Bruhier, Sultan of Arabia,
       Brunello, dwarf, thief, and king
       Brunhild, leader of the Valkyrie,
       Brutus, great grandson of Aeneas, and founder of city of New Troy (London), SEE Pandrasus
       Bryan, Sir, a knight of Arthur,
       Buddha, called The Enlightened, reformer of Brahmanism, deified teacher of self abnegation, virtue, reincarnation, Karma (inevitable sequence of every act), and Nirvana (beatific absorption into the Divine), lived about
       Byblos, in Egypt,
       Byrsa, original site of Carthage,

Publishers' Preface
Author's Preface
stories of gods and heroes
   Chapter I. Introduction
   Chapter II. Prometheus and Pandora
   Chapter III. Apollo and Daphne--Pyramus and Thisbe Cephalus and Procris
   Chapter IV. Juno and Her Rivals, Io and Callisto--Diana and Actaeon--Latona and the Rustics
   Chapter V. Phaeton
   Chapter VI. Midas--Baucis and Philemon
   Chapter VII. Proserpine--Glaucus and Scylla
   Chapter VIII. Pygmalion--Dryope-Venus and Adonis--Apollo and Hyacinthus
   Chapter IX. Ceyx and Halcyone: Or, the Halcyon Birds
   Chapter X. Vertumnus and Pomona
   Chapter XI. Cupid and Psyche
   Chapter XII. Cadmus--The Myrmidons
   Chapter XIII. Nisus and Scylla--Echo and Narcissus--Clytie--Hero and Leander
   Chapter XIV. Minerva--Niobe
   Chapter XV. The Graeae or Gray-Maids--Perseus--Medusa--Atlas--Andromeda
   Chapter XVI. Monsters
   Chapter XVII. The Golden Fleece--Medea
   Chapter XVIII. Meleager and Atalanta
   Chapter XIX. Hercules--Hebe and Ganymede
   Chapter XX. Theseus--Daedalus--Castor and Pollux
   Chapter XXI. Bacchus--Ariadne
   Chapter XXII. The Rural Deities--Erisichthon--Rhoecus--The Water Deities--Camenae--Winds
   Chapter XXIII. Achelous and Hercules--Admetus and Alcestis--Antigone--Penelope
   Chapter XXIV. Orpheus and Eurydice--Aristaeus--Amphion--Linus--Thamyris--Marsyas--Melampus--Musaeus
   Chapter XXV. Arion--Ibycus--Simonides--Sappho
   Chapter XXVI. Endymion--Orion--Aurora and Tithonus--Acis and Galatea
   Chapter XXVII. The Trojan War
   Chapter XXVIII. The Fall of Troy--Return of the Greeks--Orestes and Electra
   Chapter XXIX. Adventures of Ulysses--The Lotus-Eaters--Cyclopes--Circe--Sirens--Scylla and Charybdis--Calypso
   Chapter XXX. The Phaeacians--Fate of the Suitors
   Chapter XXXI. Adventures of Aeneas--The Harpies--Dido--Palinurus
   Chapter XXXII. The Infernal Regions--The Sibyl
   Chapter XXXIII. Camilla--Evander--Nisus and Euryalus--Mezentius--Turnus
   Chapter XXXIV. Pythagoras--Egyptian Deities--Oracles
   Chapter XXXV. Origin of Mythology--Statues of Gods and Goddesses--Poets of Mythology
   Chapter XXXVI. Modern Monsters--The Phoenix--Basilisk--Unicorn--Salamander
   Chapter XXXVII. Eastern Mythology--Zoroaster--Hindu Mythology--Castes--Buddha--Grand Lama
   Chapter XXXVIII. Northern Mythology--Valhalla--The Valkyrior
   Chapter XXXIX. Thor's Visit to Jotunheim
   Chapter XL. The Death of Baldur--The Elves--Runic Letters--Iceland--Teutonic Mythology--Nibelungen Lied
   Chapter XLI. The Druids--Iona
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   Chapter I. Introduction
   Chapter II. The Mythical History of England
   Chapter III. Merlin
   Chapter IV. Arthur
   Chapter V. Arthur (Continued)
   Chapter VI. Sir Gawain
   Chapter VII. Caradoc Briefbras; or, Caradoc with the Shrunken Arm
   Chapter VIII. Launcelot of the Lake
   Chapter IX. The Adventure of the Cart
   Chapter X. The Lady of Shalott
   Chapter XI. Queen Guenever's Peril
   Chapter XII. Tristram and Isoude
   Chapter XIII. Tristram and Isoude (Continued)
   Chapter XIV. Sir Tristram's Battle with Sir Launcelot
   Chapter XV. The Round Table
   Chapter XVI. Sir Palamedes
   Chapter XVII. Sir Tristram
   Chapter XVIII. Perceval
   Chapter XIX. The Sangreal, or Holy Graal
   Chapter XX. The Sangreal (Continued)
   Chapter XXI. The Sangreal (Continued)
   Chapter XXII. Sir Agrivain's Treason
   Chapter XXIII. Morte d'Arthur
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   Introductory Note
   Chapter I. The Britons
   Chapter II. The Lady of the Fountain
   Chapter III. The Lady of the Fountain (Continued)
   Chapter IV. The Lady of the Fountain (Continued)
   Chapter V. Geraint, the Son of Erbin
   Chapter VI. Geraint, the Son of Erbin (Continued)
   Chapter VII. Geraint, the Son of Erbin (Continued)
   Chapter VIII. Pwyll, Prince of Dyved
   Chapter IX. Branwen, the Daughter of Llyr
   Chapter X. Manawyddan
   Chapter XI. Kilwich and Olwen
   Chapter XII. Kilwich and Olwen (Continued)
   Chapter XIII. Taliesin
hero myths of the british race
   Beowulf
   Cuchulain, Champion of Ireland
   Hereward the Wake
   Robin Hood
legends of charlemagne
   Introduction
   The Peers, or Paladins
   The Tournament
   The Siege of Albracca
   Adventures of Rinaldo and Orlando
   The Invasion of France
   The Invasion of France (Continued)
   Bradamante and Rogero
   Astolpho and the Enchantress
   The Orc
   Astolpho's Adventures Continued, and Isabella's Begun
   Medoro
   Orlando Mad
   Zerbino and Isabella
   Astolpho in Abyssinia
   The War in Africa
   Rogero and Bradamante
   The Battle of Roncesvalles
   Rinaldo and Bayard
   Death of Rinaldo
   Huon of Bordeaux
   Huon of Bordeaux (Continued)
   Huon of Bordeaux (Continued)
   Ogier, the Dane
   Ogier, the Dane (Continued)
   Ogier, the Dane (Continued)
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