History
The Death of Attila the Hun
“There they found the death of Attila accomplished by an effusion of blood, without any wound, and the girl with downcast face weeping beneath her veil.” […]
Celebrity
Greek and Roman
A Legend in Love and War
“The found in a cave a strange being, between a maiden and a serpent, whose form from the waist upwards was like that of a woman, while all below was like a snake.” […]
Britons and Celts
Eyewitness to a Famous Assassination
“With this blow he shattered the sword on crown, which was large, separated from his head so that the blood turned white from the brain yet no less did the brain turn red from the blood.” […]
Britons and Celts
The Love Life of a Scottish Legend
“Let, wing’d with pleasure, the soft minutes flow, and lasting bliss no interruption know.” […]
Britons and Celts
Everybody’s Heard of Merlin
“Even that rustic prophet Merlin, a marvelous visionary who foretold the whole future of the English, spoke well of him in a mighty proclamation with a fine and truthful style.” […]
Britons and Celts
Bloodthirsty Gawain
“Gawain swung round and, with the sword which he brandished, clove him through the helm and head to his chest, bidding him, when he got to hell, to tell Quintillianus that this was why the Britons were so good at boasting and making threats.” […]
Britons and Celts
King Arthur the Barber
“Spoke Arthur, ‘Though you may not remain here, chieftain, you will get whatever boon might be named by your head and your tongue.'” […]
Human Affairs
Many Marriages Means Many Mongols
“All the idolaters, and likewise the Saracens, take six, eight, or ten wives apiece, and as many as they can afford to keep, and beget innumerable children.” […]
Britons and Celts
Merlin’s Blasphemous Birth
“Many times, too, when I was sitting alone, he would talk with me, without becoming visible; and when he came to see me in this way he would often make love with me, as a man would do, and in that way he made me pregnant.” […]
Britons and Celts
A Man and His Caliburn
“He drew his sword Caliburn, called up on the name of the Blessed Virgin, and rushed forward at full speed into the thickest ranks of the enemy. Every man whom he struck, calling upon God as he did so, he killed in a single blow.” […]