ent and true, in spite of fierce trials and
temptations. I have only related a few of their adventures, but when you
grow older you can read them for yourselves, in the languages in which
they were written.'

'Don Quixote' was written by a Spaniard, Cervantes, in the time of James
I. of England, to show what would happen if a man tried to behave like a
knight of old, after people had become more civilised and less
interesting. Don Quixote was laughed at, because he came too late into
too old a world. But he was as brave and good a knight as the best
paladin of them all. So about the knights and ladies and dwarfs and
giants, I hope you will think like Sir Walter Scott, when he was a boy,
and read the old romances. He says: 'Heaven only knows how glad I was to
find myself in such company.'

If you like the kind of company, then read 'Ivanhoe,' by Sir Walter
Scott, for that is the best romance in the world.

All the stories in this book were done by Mrs. Lang, out of the old
romances.

ANDREW LANG.

CONTENTS

PAGE
_How William of Palermo was carried off by the Werwolf_ 1
_The Disenchantment of the Werwolf_ 13
_The Slaying of Hallgerda's Husbands_ 28
_The Death of Gunnar_ 45
_Njal's Burning_ 71
_The Lady of Solace_ 84
_Una and the Lion_ 93
_How the Red Cross Knight slew the Dragon_ 105
_Amys and Amyle_ 128
_The Tale of the Cid_ 141
_The Knight of the Sorrowful Countenance_ 165
_The Adventure of the Two Armies who turned out to be Flocks
of Sheep_ 177
_The Adventure of the Boiling Lights_ 190
_The Helmet of Mambrino_ 194
_How Don Quixote was Enchanted while guarding the Castle_ 202
_Don Quixote's Home-coming_ 209
_The Meeting of Huon and Oberon, King of the Fairies_ 213
_How Oberon saved Huon_ 221
_Havelok an