HOW WILLIAM OF PALERMO WAS CARRIED OFF BY THE WERWOLF
THE DISENCHANTMENT OF THE WERWOLF
THE SLAYING OF HALLGERDA’S HUSBANDS
THE DEATH OF GUNNAR
NJAL’S BURNING
THE LADY OF SOLACE
UNA AND THE LION
HOW THE RED CROSS KNIGHT SLEW THE DRAGON
AMYS AND AMYLE
THE TALE OF THE CID
THE KNIGHT OF THE SORROWFUL COUNTENANCE
THE ADVENTURE OF THE TWO ARMIES WHO TURNED OUT TO BE FLOCKS OF SHEEP
THE ADVENTURE OF THE BOBBING LIGHTS
THE HELMET OF MAMBRINO
HOW DON QUIXOTE WAS ENCHANTED WHILE GUARDING THE CASTLE
DON QUIXOTE’S HOME-COMING
THE MEETING OF HUON AND OBERON, KING OF THE FAIRIES
HOW OBERON SAVED HUON
HAVELOK AND GOLDBOROUGH
CUPID AND PSYCHE
SIR BEVIS THE STRONG
OGIER THE DANE
HOW THE ASS BECAME A MAN AGAIN
GUY OF WARWICK
HOW BRADAMANTE CONQUERED THE WIZARD
THE RING OF BRADAMANTE
THE FULFILLING OF THE PROPHECY
THE KNIGHT OF THE SUN
HOW THE KNIGHT OF THE SUN RESCUED HIS FATHER
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Many hundreds of years ago there lived in the beautiful city of Palermo a little prince who was thought, not only by his parents but by everyone who saw him, to be the handsomest child in the whole world. When he was four years old, his mother, the queen, made up her mind that it was time to take him away from his nurses, so she chose out two ladies of the court who had been friends of her own youth, and to them she entrusted her little son. He was to be taught to read and write, and to talk Greek, the language of his mother’s country, and Latin, which all princes ought to know, while the Great Chamberlain would see that he learned to ride and shoot, and, when he grew bigger, how to wield a sword.
For a while everything went on as well as the king and queen could wish. Prince William was quick, and, besides, he could not bear to be beaten in anything he tried to do, whether it was making out the sense of a roll of parchment written in strange black letters, which was his reading-book, or mastering a pony which wanted to kick him off. And the people of Palermo looked on, and whispered to each other:
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‘Let the award be made by Gizur the white and Geir the priest,’ and this saying pleased Otkell.
‘Do you as you will,’ replied Gunnar, ‘but do not think that men will speak well of your refusing the choices that I gave you.’
