Legends & Romances of Brittany
by Lewis Spence
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Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden Leaf Printing on round Spine (extra customization on request like complete leather, Golden Screen printing in Front, Color Leather, Colored book etc.) Reprinted in 2018 with the help of original edition published long back [1917]. This book is printed in black & white, sewing binding for longer life, Printed on high quality Paper, re-sized as per Current standards, professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books, we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or m...
Chapters (206)
- LEGENDS & ROMANCES OF BRITTANY
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- CHAPTER I: THE LAND, THE PEOPLE AND THEIR STORY
- The Breton Tongue
- The Ancient Armoricans
- Samson
- Wax for Wine
- The Vision of Jud-Hael
- Taliesin
- Hervé the Blind
- Nomenoë
- Alain Barbe-torte
- Bretons and Normans
- The Poisoned Hunting-Horn
- French Influence
- The War of the Two Joans
- Bertrand Du Guesclin
- THE WARD OF DU GUESCLIN
- Anne of Brittany
- CHAPTER II: MENHIRS AND DOLMENS
- What Menhirs and Dolmens are
- The Nature of the Monuments
- Dol
- The Legend of Dol
- A Subterranean Dolmen Chapel
- Camaret
- Carnac
- A Vision
- The Legend of Carnac
- Mont-Saint-Michel
- Rocenaud
- Cup-and-Ring Markings
- The Gallery of Gavr’inis
- The Ile aux Moines
- Fairy Builders
- Stones that Travel
- CHAPTER III: THE FAIRIES OF BRITTANY
- Broceliande
- The Korrigan
- The Seigneur of Nann[21]
- A Goddess of Eld
- The Unbroken Vow[23]
- Merlin and Vivien
- Merlin
- The Fountain of Baranton
- BROCELIANDE
- Bruno of La Montagne
- Fairies in Folk-lore
- The Lost Daughter
- The Fisherman and the Fairies
- Changelings
- The King of the Fishes
- Fairy Origins
- The Margots
- The Boy who Served the Fairies
- CHAPTER IV: SPRITES AND DEMONS OF BRITTANY
- The Nain
- Crions, Courils, and Gorics
- The Teurst
- The Nicole
- The Mourioche
- The Ankou
- The Youdic
- CHAPTER V: WORLD-TALES IN BRITTANY
- The Youth who did not Know
- The Princess of Tronkolaine
- The Princess Starbright
- The Castle of the Sun
- The Seigneur with the Horse’s Head
- The Bride of Satan
- The Baron of Jauioz
- The Man of Honour
- CHAPTER VI: BRETON FOLK-TALES
- The Magic Rose
- Norouas, the North-west Wind
- The Foster-Brother
- CHAPTER VII: POPULAR LEGENDS OF BRITTANY
- The Dark Story of Gilles de Retz
- Comorre the Cursed
- The Legend of Ys
- The Clerk of Rohan
- The Lady of La Garaye
- The Falcon
- The Marquis of Guérande
- The Châteaux of Brittany
- La Roche-Jagu
- Tonquédec
- Clisson
- Josselin
- Hennebont and Largoet
- Châteaubriant
- Palaces of the Past
- Suscino
- CHAPTER VIII: HERO-TALES OF BRITTANY
- Lez-Breiz, the Prop of Brittany
- Morvan’s First Adventure
- The Return of Morvan
- The King’s Cavalier
- The King’s Blackamoor
- Morvan Fights the King
- The Severed Head
- The Ballad of Bran
- Fontenelle
- The Return from England
- The Marriage-Girdle
- The Combat of Saint-Cast
- The Song of the Pilot
- THE SONG OF THE PILOT
- CHAPTER IX: THE BLACK ART AND ITS MINISTERS
- Druidic Magic
- Abélard and Héloïse
- THE HYMN OF HÉLOÏSE
- Nantes of the Magicians
- CHAPTER X: ARTHURIAN ROMANCE IN BRITTANY
- The Sword of Arthur
- Tristrem and Ysonde
- Tristrem as Forester
- Tristrem Returns to Ermonie
- The Combat with Moraunt
- Fytte the Second
- The Marriage Embassy
- The Minstrel’s Boon
- The Ordeal by Fire
- Tristrem in Brittany
- The Forest Lovers
- The French Manuscript
- The Giant of Mont-Saint-Michel
- A Doubting Thomas
- Arthur and the Dragon
- The Isle of Avalon
- CHAPTER XI: THE BRETON LAYS OF MARIE DE FRANCE
- The Lay of the Were-Wolf
- The Were-Wolf Superstition
- The Lay of Gugemar
- The Lay of Laustic
- The Lay of Eliduc
- The Lay of Equitan
- The Lay of the Ash-Tree
- The Lay of Graelent
- The Lay of the Dolorous Knight
- CHAPTER XII: THE SAINTS OF BRITTANY
- St Barbe
- How St Convoyon Stole the Relics
- Tivisiau, the Shepherd Saint
- St Nennocha
- St Enora
- Corseul the Accursed
- St Keenan
- St Nicholas
- St Bieuzy
- St Leonorius
- St Patern
- St Samson
- Brittany’s Lawyer Saint
- St Budoc of Dol
- ‘Fatal Children’ Legends
- Miraculous Crossings
- Azénor the Pale
- St Pol of Léon
- St Ronan
- St Goezenou
- St Winwaloe, or Gwenaloe
- CHAPTER XIII: COSTUMES AND CUSTOMS OF BRITTANY
- Hats and Hymen
- Quaint Head-dresses
- Religious Festivals
- The Pardons
- Barking Women
- The Sacring Bell
- The Venus of Quinipily
- Holy Wells
- Reliquaries
- Feeding the Dead
- The Passage de l’Enfer
- Calvaries
- Weddings
- Breton Burials
- Tartarus and Paradise
- FOOTNOTES
- GLOSSARY & INDEX
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Y
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