Myth, Legend, Saga, and Epic

Our Myth, Legend, Saga and Epic CD contains 186 books, including Gilgamesh, Beowulf, Arabian Nights (complete), tales of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, Milton, The Egyptian Book of the Dead, The Song of Roland, Legends of Charlemage, Faust, Greek mythology, Homer, Dante's Divine Comedy, Ariosto, Tasso, Virgil, Norse sagas, Hindu epics, Native American myths and legends, The Mabinogion, The Lay of the Cid, and even War and Peace and Don Quixote.

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Table of Contents

General

Mythology and Legend

• Bulfinch's Mythology
• The Age of Fable
• The Age of Chivalry
• Legends of Charlemagne
• Chronicle and Romance: Froissart, Malory, Holinshed, from the Harvard ClassicsClassic Myths, retold by Mary Catherine Judd
• Custom and Myth by Andrew Lang
• Legends that Every Child Should Know, edited by Hamlton Wright Mabie
• Legends of the Middle Ages by H.A. Guerber
• Modern Mythology by Andrew Lang
• Myths and Legends of All Nations, translated by Logan Marshall
• Myths and Myth-Makers by John Fiske
• Myth, Ritual and Religion by Andrew Lang
• A New System or an Analysis of Antient Mythology by Jacob Bryant, 1807
• volume 1
• volume 2
• Young Folk's Treasury, Volume 3: Classic Tales and Old Fashioned Stories, edited by Hamilton Wright Mabie
• Interpretation of Mythology
• Atlantis: the Antediluvian World by Ignatius Donnelly
• From Ritual to Romance by Jessie Weston
• Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning by Edward Carpenter
• Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel by Ignatius Donnelly
• Epic
• The Book of the Epic by H.A. Buerber
• The Epic: an Essay by Lacelles Abercombie, 1914
• Epic and Romance, essays on medieval literature by W.P. Ker
• National Epics by Kate Milner Rabb

Arabic

Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights, complete) translated by Richard Burton

• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Volume 3
• Volume 4
• Volume 5
• Volume 6
• Volume 7
• Volume 8
• Volume 9
• Volume 10
• Supplement Volume1
• Supplement Volume 2
• Supplement Volume 3
• Supplement Volume 4
• Supplement Volume 5
• Supplement Volume 6

Atlantic Islands

• Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic by Thomas Higginson

Babylonian and Assyrian

• Babylonian and Assyrian Literature, Comprising the Epic of Izdubar, Hymns, Tablets and Cuneiform Inscriptions with an introduction by Epiphanius Wilson
• The Epic of Gilgamesh by Stephen Langdon
• An Old Babylonian Version of the Gilgamesh Epic, edited by Morris Jastrow
• The Babylonian Legends of the Creation and the Fiht Between Bel and the Dragon, as told by Assyrian tablets from Nineveh
• The Babylonian Story of  the Deluge, as told by Assyrian Tablets from Nineveh
• Legends of Babylon and Egypt in Relation to Hebrew Tradition by Leonard King
• Myths of Babylonia and Assyra by Donald MacKenzie
• The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Theophilus Pinches

British

• Beowulf, translated by Gummere
• Beowulf, translated by Lesslie Hall
• The Relation of the Hrolfs Saga and the Bjarkarimur to Beowulf by Oscar Olson
• Arthur, a Short Sketch of His Life and History in English Verse of the First Half of the Fifteenth Century by Frederick J. Furnivall
• Le Morte Darthur by Sir Thomas Malory, in English
• volume 1
• volume 2
• Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight (c. 1360) edited by Richard Morris
• Howard Pyle
• The Book of Pirates
• Men of Iron
• Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
• Otto of the Silver Hand
• Story of the Champions of the Round Table
• The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser
• Dr. Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
• Poetical Works by John Milton (four books in one document)
• Miscellaneous Poems
• Paradise Lost
• Paradise Regained
• Samson Agonistes
• Idylls of the King by Alfred Lord Tennyson
• The History of Sir Richard Whittington by T.H.

Egyptian

• The Book of the Dead by E.A. Wallis Budge
• Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life by E.A. Wallis Budge
• Egyptian Tales, translated from the papyri, edited by W. M. Flinders Petrie
• first series, IV to XII Dynasty
• second series, XVII to XIX Dynasty
• Legends of Babylon and Egypt in Relation to Hebrew Tradition by Leonard King
• Legends of the Gods by E.A. Wallis Budge
• The Light of Egypt, volume 2, by Thomas Burgoyne
• The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians by E.A. Wallis Budge

Finnish

• Kalevala, the Finnish national epic,

• in Finnish

in English, translated by John Crawford

French

• Four Arthurian Romances by Chretien DeTroyes
• French Medaeval Romances, from the Lays of Marie de France, translated by Eugene Mason
• High History of the Holy Graal
• The Song of Roland, anonymous, in English
• The Song of Roland (from the Harvard Classics)

German

• Legends of the Rhine by Wilhelm Ruland
• Nibelungenlied
• in English, translated by George Henry Needler
• in English, translator unknown
• in modern German, translated by Karl Simrock
• The Story of Siegfried by James Baldwin
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Faust
• Part 1, in English
• Part 1, in German
• Part 2, in German
• translated by Charles Brooks
• translated by Bayard Taylor

Greek

• The Argonautica by Apollonius Rhodius, translated by R.C. Seaton
• Cerberus, the Dog of Hades: The History of an Idea by Maurice Bloomfield
• The Fall of Troy by Quintus of Smyrna
• A Fleece of Gold by Charles Stewart Given
• Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
• The Homeric Hymns, translated by Andrew Lang
• Iliad
• translated to English by Andrew Lang, Walter Leaf, and Ernest Myers
• translated to English by Samuel Butler
• translated by Edward Earl of Derby
• translated by Alexander Pope
• translated by William Cowper
• L'Iliade translated to French by Charles-Rene-Marie Leconte de l'Isle
• Odyssey
• translated to English by Alexander Pope
• translated to English by S.H. Butcher and Andrew Lang
• translated to English by Samuel Butler
• L'Odyssee  translated to French by Charles-Rene-Marie Leconte de l'Isle
• Making Sense of the Myths Behind Greek Tragedy by Richard Seltzer
• Stories from the Greek Tragedians by Alfred Church
• Tales of Troy by Andrew Lang
• Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Hawaiian

• The Hawaiian Romance of Laiekowai by Martha Warren Beckwith
• The Unwritten Literature of Hawaii, translated by Nathaniel Emerson

Hebrew

• Genesis
• Legends of Babylon and Egypt in Relation to Hebrew Tradition by Leonard King

Indian (India)

• Bhagavadgita, Sanatsugatiya and Anugita, translated by Kashinath Trimbak Telang
• The Bhagavad-Gita, translated by Sir Edwin Arnold
• Hindoo Tales or Adventures of Ten Princes, translated by P.W. Jacob, 1873
• Hindu Tales from the Sanskrit, translated by S.M. Mitra, 1919
• Institutes of Vishnu
• Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa
• Nala and Damayanti and other Poems, translated by Henry MillmanThe Religions of India by Edward Hopkins
• The Religions of India by Edward Washburn Hopkins
• Tales of Bengal by S.B. Banerjia
• Tales from the Hundu Dramatists by R.N. Dutta
• Tales of the Punjab, Folklore of India by Flora Steel
• Twenty-two Goblins, translated by Arthur Ryder
• Upanishads, translated by F. Max Müller
• part 1
• part 2
• The Upanishads, Translated and Commentated by Swami Paramananda, From the Original Sanskrit Text
• Vikram and the Vampire, a classic Hindu tale of adventure, magic, and romance by Richard Burton

Irish

• The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Tain Bo Cualnge, the Cualnge Cattle-Raid, tanlsated by Joseph Dunn
• The Cattle-Raid of Cualnge, translated by L. Winifred Faraday
• Celtic Tales Told to the Children by Louey Chisholm
• The Coming of Cuculain by Standish O'Grady
• Early Bardic Literature Ireland by Standish O'Grady
• Heroic Romances of Ireland, translated by A.H. Leahey
• Irish Wonders by D.r. McAnally, Jr.
• The Religion of the Ancient Celts by J.A. Macculloch

Italian

Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)

La Divina Commedia, in Italian

The Divine Comedy, In English translation:

translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- The Divine Comedy

translated by the Rev. H.F. Cary -- The Vision or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise

translated by Charles Eliot Norton

Hell

Purgatory

Paradise

Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533)

• Orlando Furioso, in Italian
• Orlando Furioso, in English

Torquato Tasso  (1544-1595)

• Jerusalem Delivered translated to English by Edward Fairfax

Latin

• Roman Antiquities and Ancient Mythology for Classical Schools by Charles K. Dillaway
• Lucius Apuleius
• The Golden Ass
• Virgil

Aeneid

• in English
• in English, trans.. E. Fairfax Taylor
• in Latin

Japanese

• Tales of Old Japan by Lord Redesdale

Native American

• Algonquin Indian Tales, collected by Egerton Young
• Blackfeet Indian Stories by George Bird Grinnell
• Folk-Lore and Legends: North American Indian
• Indian Legends and Other Poems by Mary Gardiner Horsford
• Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Hochelagans and Mohawks by W.D. Lighthall
• Sketch of the Mythology of the North American Indians by J.W. Powell
• Stories the Iroquois Tell Their Children by Mabel Powers
• The Unwritten Literature of the Hopi by Hattie Greene Lockert

Norse

• The Death of Balder by Johannes Ewald, translated by George Borrow
• The Edda I: The Divine Mythology of the North by Winifred Faraday
• The Edda II: The Heroic Mythology fo the North by Winifred Faraday
• The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson translated by Benjamin Thorpe
• Erik the Red's Saga, translated by J. Sephton
• Folk-Lore and Legends Scandinavian by W.W. Gibbings
• Laxaela Saga, translated by Muriel Press
• The Life and Death of Cormac the Skald, translated by W.G. Collingwood and J. Stefansen
• Northland Heroes by Florence Holbrook
• Njal's Saga, anonymous, 13th century, in English
• Popular Tales from the Norse by George Dasent
• The Relation of the Hrolfs Saga and the Bjarkarimur to Beowulf by Oscar Olson
• Saga of Grettir the Strong, anonymous, 14th century, in English
• The Story of Burnt Njal
• The Story of Grettir the Strong, translated by Eirikr Magnuson and William Morris
• The Story of Sigurd the Volsung, translated by William Morris
• The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs by William Morris
• Volsunga Saga, with excerpts from the Poetic Edda, anonymous, 13th century, in English
• The Younger Edda

Russian

Leo Tolstoy

War and Peace, in English

Book 1

Book 2

Book 3

Book 4

Book 5

Book 6

Book 7

Book 8

Book 9

Book 10

Book 11

Book 12

Book 13

Book 14

Book 15

Scottish

• Folk-Lore and Legends of Scotland
• Sir Walter Scott
• Ivanhoe
• The Lady of the Lake

Spanish

• The Lay of the Cid, translated by Selden Stone and Leonard Bacon
• Miguel de Cervantes
• Don Quixote
• in English
• in Spanish

Welsh

• Mabinogion, translated by Lady Charlotte Guest
• Mabinogion, translated by Lady Charlotte Guest, edition of 1902
• volume 1
• volume 2
• volume 3