Legends & Romances of Brittany

About this eBook

Author

Spence, Lewis, 1874-1955

Credits

Produced by Suzanne Shell, Katherine Ward, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

DC: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: France, Andorra, Monaco

Subject

Brittany (France) -- Antiquities

Category

Text

eBook-No.

30871

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30871

Release Date

January 6, 2010

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.LEGENDS & ROMANCES OF BRITTANY
2. 2.PREFACE
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.ILLUSTRATIONS
5. 5.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
6. 6.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
7. 7.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
8. 8.CHAPTER IV: SPRITES AND DEMONS OF BRITTANY — The Nain — Crions, Courils, and Gorics — The Teurst — The Nicole — The Mourioche — The Ankou — The Youdic
9. 9.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
10. 10.CHAPTER VI: BRETON FOLK-TALES — The Magic Rose — Norouas, the North-west Wind — The Foster-Brother
11. 11.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
12. 12.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
13. 13.CHAPTER IX: THE BLACK ART AND ITS MINISTERS — Druidic Magic — Abélard and Héloïse — THE HYMN OF HÉLOÏSE — Nantes of the Magicians
14. 14.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
15. 15.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
16. 16.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
17. 17.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
18. 18.FOOTNOTES
19. 19.GLOSSARY & INDEX — A — B — C — D — E — F — G — H — I — J — K — L — M — N — O — P — Q — R — S — T — U — V — W — Y —

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