312

III.--AT THE CASTLE OF MAIDENS 322

IV.--THE QUEST OF THE TEN KNIGHTS 335

V.--THE KNIGHT WITH THE COVERED SHIELD 345

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

KING ARTHUR. VOL. I.

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FURNESS ABBEY _Frontispiece_.

STATUE OF KING ARTHUR AT INNSBRUCK 24

KING ARTHUR'S FAIR LOVE 48

KING ARTHUR'S TOMB 70

MERLIN AND NIMUE 89

THE GREAT FOREST 94

NIMUE 105

THE LOVE OF PELLEAS AND NIMUE 134

DREAM OF SIR LANCELOT 139

OLD ARCHES OF THE ABBEY WALL 149

KING ARTHUR'S ROUND TABLE, WINCHESTER CATHEDRAL 179

BEAUMAINS, DAMSEL, AND DWARF 213

THE JOYOUS WEDDING 235

SIR TRISTRAM HARPING TO ISOLDE 250

A CASTLE OF CORNWALL 258

TRISTRAM AND THE FAIR ISOLDE 273

THE CLIFFS ABOVE THE SEA 288

TINTAGIL KING ARTHUR'S CASTLE 302

TRISTRAM THEREUPON DEPARTED TO HIS PAVILION 325

ADMISSION OF SIR TRISTRAM TO THE KING OF THE
ROUND TABLE 359

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INTRODUCTORY.

Geoffrey of Monmouth, the famous chronicler of legendary British
history, tells us,--in reference to the time when the Celtic kings of
Britain were struggling against the Saxon invaders,--that "there
appeared a star of wonderful magnitude and brightness, darting its rays,
at the end of which was a globe of fire in the form of a dragon, out of
whose mouth issued two rays; one of which seemed to stretch itself
beyond the extent o