The Gentlemans Magazine Library English Traditional Lore Customs Of Foreign Countries And Peoples

Author : George Laurence Gomme
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333866815
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book The Gentleman's Magazine Library written by George Laurence Gomme and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-10-06 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Gentleman's Magazine Library: Being a Classified Collection of the Chief Contents of the Gentleman's Magazine From 1731 to 1868; English Traditional Lore, to Which Is Added Customs of Foreign Countries and Peoples Scandinavia and the North are yet almost unworked, but are full of material; while in Mr. Ralston's Songs of Ike Russian People and Russian folk-tales we may obtain some idea of what exists in Eastern Europe.' Beowulf may be considered our national epic, but it does not stand to English people like the N ibelungen to the Germans, the Sagas to the Norse, the Kalewala to the Firm, the Iliad and Odyssey to the old Greeks, the Pentateuch to the Hebrews, the Vedas to the Hindu, nor like the Ossianic cycle to the Scottish and Irish. The Arthurian cycle of tales is the nearest approach to being national in its characteristics; and Professor Sayce agrees with Mr. Coote that the main figure of these stories was Artorius, a Roman general. Is it then that the Roman conquest uprooted the Celtic legends and overshadowed the later Teutonic legends? Such a question may well be asked of students of English traditional lore; for the only alternative is, that, just as Cicero had to lament the loss of the old national legends and stories of the Romans (see Cicero, In Brutum, so have we to lament that science has been so laggard in her recognition of the value of this important branch of materials for English history, that the opportunity has irretrievably passed away for its recovery. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.