186
A Peasant Insurrection 197
Morvan returns to his Ruined Home 214
The Finding of Silvestik 232
Heloise as Sorceress 250
King Arthur and Merlin at the Lake 257
Tristrem and Ysonde 268
King Arthur and the Giant of Mont-Saint-Michel 276
The Were-Wolf 288
Gugemar comes upon the Magic Ship 294
Gugemar's Assault on the Castle of Meriadus 300
Eliduc carries Guillardun to the Forest Chapel 312
Convoyon and his Monks carry off the Relics of St
Apothemius 336
St Tivisiau, the Shepherd Saint 339
St Yves instructing Shepherd-boys in the Use of the
Rosary 352
Queen Queban stoned to Death 369
Modern Brittany 377
The Souls of the Dead 385

CHAPTER I: THE LAND, THE PEOPLE AND THEIR STORY

The romantic region which we are about to traverse in search of the
treasures of legend was in ancient times known as Armorica, a
Latinized form of the Celtic name, Armor ('On the Sea'). The Brittany
of to-day corresponds to the departments of Finistere, Cotes-du-Nord,
Morbihan, Ille-et-Vilaine, and Loire-Inferieure. A popular division of
the country is that which partitions it into Upper, or Eastern, and
Lower, or Western, Brittany, and these tracts together have an area of
some 13,130 square miles.

Such parts of Brittany as are near to the sea-coast present marked
differences to the inland regions, where raised plateaux are covered
with dreary and unproductive moorland. These plateaux, again, rise
into small ranges of hills, not of any great height, but, from their
wild and rugged appearance, giving the impression of an altitude much
loftier than they possess. The coast-line is ragged, indented, and
inhospitable, lined with deep reefs and broken by the estuaries of
brawling rivers. In the southern portion the district known as 'the
Emerald Coast' pr