Republished here is a series of lectures on the ancient history of the two major culture groups of Western Europe. The lectures were delivered by Charles Kingsley to students and scholars the University of Cambridge in the 19th century. The text has been freshly typeset and corrected.
Thomas Carlyle tells the history of the Viking kings of Norway, based on the semi-legendary ancient sagas. The essay, first published in 1875, has been newly and attractively typeset for this edition.
A collection of pastoral poems by Edmund Spenser, in imitation of Virgil's Eclogues, The Shepheardes Calender regards rural life and love through the rotation of the seasons of the year. This edition is newly typeset using Renaissance typefaces and printed with colour headings and titles. The charming archaic spelling of the original text is not updated.
Here is the great medieval German poem, the Nibelungenlied, derived from ancient Germanic legend, as translated by Alice Horton into English retaining the meter and rhyme structure of the original. The text is freshly typeset.
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