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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
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