Part 3

THE DEATH OF ADONIS 202

PAN 209

LORELEI 220

FREYA, QUEEN OF THE NORTHERN GODS 227

THE DEATH OF BALDUR 234

BEOWULF 244

ROLAND THE PALADIN 266

THE CHILDREN OF LIR 289

DEIRDRE 306

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

"What was he doing, the great god Pan, Down in the reeds by the river?" Frontispiece

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Then Pygmalion covered his eyes 12

She checked her hounds, and stood beside Endymion 28

Swiftly he turned, and found his wife behind him 38

Thus did Psyche lose her fear, and enter the golden doors 52

She stopped, and picked up the treasure 80

Marpessa sat alone by the fountain 92

They whimpered and begged of him 112

Darkness fell on the eyes of Hyacinthus 132

A grey cold morning found her on the seashore 152

She haunted him like his shadow 176

Freya sat spinning the clouds 228

"Baldur the Beautiful is dead!" 240

A stroke shivered the sword 262

Roland seized once more his horn 282

One touch for each with a magical wand of the Druids 294

A BOOK OF MYTHS