item: #1 of 21
id: 10095
author: Garnett, Richard
title: The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales
date: None
words: 81587
flesch: 71
summary: Their money does not appear different from other men's, said the Treasurer. Thou knowest how beyond other men he is devoured by the craving for sympathy.
keywords: age; alexander; ananda; apollo; art; beauty; bell; bishop; cardinal; city; come; course; daughter; day; death; demon; devil; earth; elenko; emperor; ere; euschemon; eyes; father; friend; gods; gold; good; hand; hath; having; head; heart; heaven; holiness; holy; king; knowledge; life; light; love; lucifer; majesty; man; manner; master; men; mind; moment; nature; new; otto; pan; people; person; philosopher; place; plotinus; pope; presence; present; prometheus; purple; set; son; thee; things; thou; thought; thy; time; timon; truth; wilt; woman; world; years; youth
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item: #2 of 21
id: 1061
author: Fiske, John
title: Myths and Myth-Makers Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology
date: None
words: 78473
flesch: 63
summary: It was a trap-door, below which a flight of marble steps descended into a spacious hall, where many men were sitting in solemn silence amid piles of gold and diamonds and long rows of enamelled vases. They are the offspring of other stories which were sun-myths; they are stories which conform to the sun-myth type after the manner above illustrated in the paper on Light and Darkness.
keywords: aryan; belief; body; case; character; children; cloud; conception; dark; dawn; day; dead; death; demon; devil; dog; earth; evidence; fact; fire; footnote; form; god; good; greek; hand; history; home; house; human; iliad; king; language; legend; life; lightning; lore; man; men; mind; modern; moon; mother; myth; mythology; nature; new; night; order; origin; people; phenomena; place; poems; savage; science; sky; soul; stories; story; sun; tell; theory; thought; time; tylor; vol; water; way; werewolf; wife; wind; wolf; words; world; years; zeus
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item: #3 of 21
id: 12261
author: Frazer, James George
title: Balder the Beautiful, Volume I. A Study in Magic and Religion: the Golden Bough, Part VII., The Fire-Festivals of Europe and the Doctrine of the External Soul
date: None
words: 164418
flesch: 76
summary: At Ensival old folks tell young folks that they will have as many Easter eggs as they see bonfires on this day.[267] At Pâturages, in the province of Hainaut, down to about 1840 the custom was observed under the name of _Escouvion_ or _Scouvion_. It has been described as follows by the parish minister of the time: Upon the first day of May, which is called _Beltan_, or _Bal-tein_ day, all the boys in a township or hamlet, meet in the moors.
keywords: account; africa; air; animals; ashes; aus; balder; belief; beltane; berlin; bonfires; british; burning; cattle; central; century; ceremonies; ceremony; children; christmas; church; cit; compare; country; cross; custom; cut; dance; day; days; death; der; des; deutsche; die; district; door; earth; easter; end; europe; eve; evening; evil; family; father; feet; festival; fields; fire; flames; folk; food; form; france; friction; girl; god; good; great; hallowe'en; hand; head; hill; hole; holy; home; house; husband; hut; i. p.; iii; indians; ireland; john; kindle; kindling; king; leap; life; log; london; long; lore; man; midsummer; midsummer day; midsummer eve; midsummer fire; morning; mother; mountains; need; new; night; north; notes; order; paris; people; period; person; place; priest; puberty; purpose; reason; rev; round; scotland; seclusion; second; set; sir; small; smoke; south; sqq; sticks; stones; straw; sun; sunday; thought; time; torches; touch; tree; tribes; village; vol; wales; water; way; wheel; witchcraft; witches; wolf; women; wood; year; young; yule
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item: #4 of 21
id: 14080
author: Lang, Andrew
title: Custom and Myth
date: None
words: 81056
flesch: 69
summary: Our position is, on the other hand, that the germs of the religious sense in early man are developed, not so much by the vision of the Infinite, as by the idea of Power. Again, it is wrongly applied, because it has some modern religious associations, which are covertly and fallaciously introduced to explain the supposed emotions of early men.
keywords: account; animal; apollo; art; aryan; australians; bear; bull; case; children; cronus; custom; dawn; dead; early; earth; evidence; family; fetichism; find; form; god; gods; greece; greek; heaven; history; human; ideas; kind; magical; man; marriage; max; men; method; mice; mother; mouse; muller; mysteries; myth; mythology; names; nature; new; night; origin; people; race; red; religion; roarer; rod; savage; stars; stone; story; sun; tale; theory; things; thought; time; water; way; wife; women; world; worship; zeus
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item: #5 of 21
id: 14576
author: Lang, Andrew
title: Modern Mythology
date: None
words: 58069
flesch: 72
summary: Yet anthropologists and folk-lorists, 'agriologists' and 'Hottentotic' students, must regret that Mr. Max Muller did not state their general theory, as he understands it, fully and once for all. Adversaries rarely succeed in quite understanding each other; but had Mr. Max Muller made such a statement, we could have cleared up anything in our position which might seem to him obscure.
keywords: account; artemis; author; bear; course; cronos; daphne; dawn; death; demeter; disease; earth; evidence; explanation; fact; fire; frazer; god; gods; greek; ideas; language; light; mannhardt; max muller; meaning; men; method; myth; mythology; names; nature; new; opinion; origin; people; professor; races; red; religion; savage; scholars; solar; story; sun; theory; thought; tiele; totem; totemism; tree; tuna; words; world
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item: #6 of 21
id: 15202
author: None
title: Young Folks' Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12) Myths and Legendary Heroes
date: None
words: 192672
flesch: 88
summary: In those far-off days there was nothing for great men to do but fight. Said he, I am Saint Lazarus, and know that I was a leper to whom thou didst so much good
keywords: battle; cave; children; city; country; dark; daughter; day; days; dead; death; dragon; earth; eyes; face; fair; father; fire; giant; god; gods; gold; golden; good; great; guy; hand; head; heart; help; hero; home; house; king; knights; know; land; lay; left; life; little; loki; look; man; men; morning; mother; night; odysseus; people; perseus; place; prince; proserpina; queen; river; robin; roland; round; saw; sea; set; ship; siegfried; sir; son; sword; tell; thee; theseus; thor; thou; thought; thy; time; tree; voice; water; way; white; wife; world
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item: #7 of 21
id: 1561
author: Carpenter, Edward
title: Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning
date: None
words: 100672
flesch: 59
summary: He has some connection with the great god more intimate than that of other men... Women were persuaded that it was an honor and a privilege to be fertilized by a 'holy man' (a priest or other man connected with the rites), and children resulting from such unions were often called Children of God--an appellation which no doubt sometimes led to a legend of miraculous birth!
keywords: animal; belief; birth; blood; body; book; bull; case; christian; christianity; church; consciousness; course; day; death; doubt; earth; evolution; fact; far; form; god; gods; golden; good; heaven; history; human; jesus; kind; later; life; light; love; magic; man; matter; means; men; mind; mother; mysteries; nature; new; order; pagan; people; period; place; point; power; present; religion; return; rites; ritual; sacrifice; second; self; sense; sex; sin; spirit; stage; subject; sun; things; thought; time; totem; tree; tribe; virgin; way; world; worship; year
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item: #8 of 21
id: 2832
author: Lang, Andrew
title: Myth, Ritual and Religion, Vol. 1 (of 2)
date: None
words: 104430
flesch: 66
summary: It was through sheer ignorance and neglect of this direct knowledge how and by what manner of men myths are really made that their simple philosophy has come to be buried under masses of commentator's rubbish...(1) But in Peru we do not find nearly such abundance of other savage origin myths as will be proved to exist in the legends of Greeks and Indo-Aryans.
keywords: account; ahone; american; ancient; animals; australian; beasts; beings; belief; black; chapter; character; chief; children; conception; condition; creator; culture; divine; early; earth; element; evidence; example; father; find; form; general; ghosts; gods; good; great; greece; greek; heaven; human; hymns; hypothesis; ideas; indian; legend; life; magic; man; men; mind; moon; muller; mysteries; mythology; myths; native; nature; new; north; origin; people; place; plants; power; primitive; races; red; religion; sacrifice; savage; says; smith; society; spirit; stone; stories; story; strachey; sun; tales; theory; things; thought; time; totemism; tribe; tylor; veda; vedic; way; woman; world; zeus
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item: #9 of 21
id: 30800
author: Cooke, Flora J. (Flora Juliette)
title: Nature Myths and Stories for Little Children
date: None
words: 16524
flesch: 95
summary: For many days and nights he bravely took care of his father and kept the fire burning. When the sun had shone upon it many days and dried and hardened it, people called it pudding stone.
keywords: day; earth; fire; flowers; home; illustration; king; people; persephone; time; trees; white; work; zeus
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item: #10 of 21
id: 3327
author: Bulfinch, Thomas
title: Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable
date: None
words: 146923
flesch: 77
summary: They were directed where to seek him, and soon found him in a verdant valley, where he was contemplating the ranks of his posterity, their destinies and worthy deeds to be achieved in coming times. While the majority of the Brahmans still profess to recognize the equal divinity of Brahma, Vishnu, and Siva, the mass of the people worship Krishna, Rama, the Singam, and many other gods and idols.
keywords: achilles; aeneas; age; air; apollo; arms; athens; beauty; blood; body; cause; chapter; chariot; city; come; country; course; daughter; day; dead; death; diana; earth; eyes; face; fall; fate; father; feet; fire; following; form; giant; goddess; gods; gold; greece; greek; hair; hand; head; heart; heaven; hercules; human; husband; island; juno; jupiter; king; know; land; lay; left; life; love; man; men; milton; minerva; moment; mother; night; oracle; people; place; poets; power; queen; race; rest; return; river; round; saw; sea; set; shore; son; statue; story; sun; temple; thee; theseus; things; thor; thou; thought; thy; time; tree; ulysses; venus; voice; war; water; way; wife; words; work; world; young; youth
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item: #11 of 21
id: 34170
author: Various
title: Heathen mythology, Illustrated by extracts from the most celebrated writers, both ancient and modern
date: None
words: 98394
flesch: 75
summary: Led with unwary step her virgin trains O'er Etna's steeps, and Enna's golden plains; Plucked with fair hand the silver blossomed bower, And purpled mead,--herself a fairer flower; {105} Sudden, unseen amid the twilight glade, Rushed gloomy Dis, and seized the trembling maid. And if it be Prometheus stole from Heaven The fire which we endure, it was repaid By him to whom the energy was given, Which this poetic marble hath arrayed With an eternal glory, which if made By human hands, is not of human thought, And Time himself hath hallowed it, nor laid One ringlet in the dust, nor hath it caught A tinge of years, but breathes the flame with which 'twas wrought.
keywords: apollo; arms; bacchus; beauty; beneath; blood; breast; child; come; country; daughter; day; death; deep; deity; divine; earth; engravings; eyes; face; fair; fate; father; flowers; form; god; goddess; gods; golden; good; hair; hand; hath; head; heart; heaven; hercules; hero; high; honour; illustration; jove; juno; jupiter; king; left; life; light; love; man; men; minerva; mortal; mother; nature; near; nymph; o'er; ovid; people; place; power; price; round; saw; sea; son; spirit; sun; sword; temple; thee; theseus; thou; thought; thy; time; vain; venus; voice; war; waves; wife; wild; world; youth
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item: #12 of 21
id: 36794
author: Lang, Andrew
title: Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2)
date: None
words: 105055
flesch: 71
summary: The Huarochiri explained them by a series of _märchen_ about Huthiacuri, Pariaca (culture-heroes), and about friendly animals which aided them in the familiar way. Heaven, earth, Indra, the cow, are all thought of as _personal_ entities, however gigantic and vague.
keywords: account; animal; apollo; artemis; athene; baiame; beasts; belief; birth; bull; character; chief; cit; culture; dawn; dead; death; deities; deity; demeter; dionysus; divine; earth; egypt; egyptian; evidence; example; father; find; form; goddess; gods; good; great; greece; greek; head; heaven; homer; human; ibid; ideas; iii; indian; indra; khoi; kind; legend; life; man; max; men; mother; mysteries; myth; mythology; märchen; müller; names; native; nature; new; opinion; origin; osiris; people; place; power; races; religion; rites; ritual; savage; shape; sky; son; stories; story; sun; tales; theory; things; thought; time; tree; tribes; way; world; worship; zeus
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item: #13 of 21
id: 40686
author: Conway, Moncure Daniel
title: Demonology and Devil-lore
date: None
words: 269095
flesch: 68
summary: Shakespeare ascribes to Cæsar a suspicion of leanness-- Yond' Cassius hath a lean and hungry look: He thinks too much: such men are dangerous. Such men have so long left the Church familiar to the French peasantry that any representation of their temptations and trials would be out of place among the marionettes.
keywords: account; adam; ages; ahriman; air; angels; animal; bear; beauty; beings; belief; beneath; bible; black; blood; body; book; burning; case; cat; century; certain; chapter; character; chief; children; christian; church; come; common; country; darkness; day; days; dead; death; deities; deity; demons; devil; divine; dog; doubt; dragon; earth; egypt; england; english; europe; eve; eyes; face; fact; fair; faith; fall; family; father; faust; fear; feet; fiery; figure; find; fire; following; form; ghost; god; gods; gold; good; great; half; hand; head; heart; heaven; hell; hindu; history; holy; house; human; idea; india; jehovah; jesus; jews; job; kind; king; knowledge; land; law; left; legend; life; light; like; lilith; living; long; look; lord; love; man; mankind; meaning; means; men; mephistopheles; mind; monster; moon; moral; mother; mountain; myth; mythology; names; nature; near; new; north; number; order; origin; paradise; people; period; picture; place; power; present; priests; prince; race; read; reason; red; regions; religion; round; sacrifice; satan; says; science; sea; sense; serpent; set; shape; sin; snake; son; soul; spirit; stone; story; sun; superstition; sword; terror; thee; theology; theory; things; thou; thought; thy; time; tree; truth; universe; vision; war; water; way; white; wife; wild; witches; wolf; woman; words; work; world; worm; worship; years
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item: #14 of 21
id: 41350
author: Spenser, Edmund
title: Stories from the Faerie Queen, Told to the Children
date: None
words: 22724
flesch: 92
summary: George made Una go to a high piece of ground, from whence she could see the fight, and where she would be out of danger, and then rode to meet the terrible beast. And when Marinell saw Florimell standing blushing beside him, her hand in his mother's, all his sadness went away and his strength came back, and the pain in his heart was cured.
keywords: britomart; calidore; day; fight; florimell; george; guyon; knight; magic; marinell; pastorella; red; sea; una
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item: #15 of 21
id: 44460
author: None
title: Carleton's Condensed Classical Dictionary
date: None
words: 49200
flesch: 75
summary: =A.B.=, Bachelor of Arts. =A.D.= (L. _anno Domini_), in the year of our Lord. =A.M.= (L. _ante meridiem_), before noon.
keywords: = =; a.d; age; alexander; antony; apollo; army; athens; augustus; b.c; battle; beauty; book; brother; city; country; cæsar; daughter; death; emperor; family; father; fellow; general; god; goddess; gods; great; greece; greeks; head; hercules; history; juno; jupiter; king; life; love; men; monster; mother; new; novel; number; people; persia; philosopher; place; poet; power; queen; reign; roman; rome; royal; sea; society; son; sons; temple; thebes; throne; time; trojan; troy; ulysses; venus; war; wife; works; years
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item: #16 of 21
id: 47127
author: Arundell of Wardour, John Francis Arundell, Baron
title: Tradition, Principally with Reference to Mythology and the Law of Nations
date: None
words: 166327
flesch: 64
summary: Why it was that harmony was not attained seems to be disclosed, if we read the passage in our sense and with a certain transposition of parts, at p. 3--There were at Athens then, as there have been at all times and in all countries, men who had no sense for the miraculous and supernatural, and who, without having the moral courage to deny altogether what they could not bring themselves to believe, endeavoured to find some plausible explanation _by which the sacred legends_ which _tradition_ had _handed down to them_, and which had been _hallowed_ by _religious observances_, and sanctioned by the authority of the law, might be brought _into harmony with_ [119] The most favourable review of Mr B. Gould's work which I have seen says:--In tracing the origin and development of religious belief, the object of Mr Baring Gould is to establish the foundation of _Christian_ doctrine on the nature, the intuitions, and the reason of man, _rather than upon traditionary dogmas_, historical documents, or written inspirations.
keywords: account; adam; age; america; antiquity; argument; ark; bacchus; belief; bryant; bull; bunsen; captain; case; catlin; ceremonies; certain; chapter; chinese; chronology; civilisation; colonel; commencement; compare; connection; creation; custom; cycle; day; declaration; deity; deluge; des; deucalion; divine; doubt; dynasty; earth; egypt; egyptian; evidence; evil; existence; fact; families; family; father; fire; fish; following; form; general; generations; god; gods; good; greece; greek; ground; hand; happiness; head; history; human; i. p.; i.e.; idea; iii; indians; infra; instance; john; king; knowledge; law; laws; legend; les; life; lord; lubbock; macdonell; maine; man; mankind; manner; matter; max; means; men; mythology; müller; nations; nature; new; noah; opinion; order; origin; passage; people; period; place; point; power; present; question; race; rawlinson; reason; reference; religion; right; roman; saturn; science; second; sense; sir; society; spirit; state; stone; subject; sun; supra; system; testimony; theory; things; time; tradition; tribes; truth; universal; vide; view; war; water; way; white; words; work; world; worship; years
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item: #17 of 21
id: 4925
author: Bulfinch, Thomas
title: The Age of Fable
date: None
words: 143880
flesch: 73
summary: Pan, like other gods who dwelt in forests, was dreaded by those whose occupations caused them to pass through the woods by night, for the gloom and loneliness of such scenes dispose the mind to superstitious fears. On that fatal night when the wooden horse disgorged its contents of armed men, and the capture and conflagration of the city were the result, Aeneas made his escape from the scene of destruction, with his father, and his wife, and young son.
keywords: achilles; aeneas; age; air; apollo; arms; arthur; beauty; blood; body; brother; cause; chapter; chariot; chief; city; country; daughter; day; dead; death; diana; earth; eyes; face; fall; fate; father; feet; fire; following; form; giant; goddess; gods; gold; good; greece; greeks; hand; head; heaven; hector; hercules; hero; horse; human; husband; island; juno; jupiter; king; lay; left; life; loki; love; man; men; milton; minerva; monster; mother; mountain; mythology; near; neptune; new; night; nymphs; oracle; people; place; poet; power; psyche; queen; race; rest; return; river; round; sacred; saw; sea; set; shore; slain; sleep; son; story; sun; sword; temple; thee; theseus; things; thor; thou; thought; thy; time; tree; trojan; troy; ulysses; venus; war; water; way; wife; words; work; world; years; young; youth
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item: #18 of 21
id: 4928
author: Bulfinch, Thomas
title: Bulfinch's Mythology
date: None
words: 332154
flesch: 76
summary: Then King Arthur saluted her, and demanded of her wherefore she made such lamentation; to whom she answered: Sir knight, speak low, for yonder is a devil, and if he hear thee speak, he will come and destroy thee. Sir knight, they said, thou must understand thou art our prisoner; and we know thee well, that thou art Sir Launcelot of the Lake, King Ban's son, and that thou art the noblest knight living.
keywords: achilles; aeneas; age; angelica; apollo; armor; arms; army; arthur; astolpho; battle; beautiful; beauty; blood; blow; body; bore; bradamante; brother; castle; cause; chapter; charlemagne; chief; city; combat; come; country; course; court; damsel; daughter; day; days; dead; death; earth; emperor; enemy; eyes; face; fair; fall; fate; father; feet; fire; foot; forest; form; fountain; france; friends; gawain; geraint; giant; goddess; gods; gold; golden; good; great; guenever; hall; hand; head; heart; heaven; hector; hercules; hero; high; honor; horse; huon; husband; island; isoude; jupiter; kay; king; king arthur; knight; know; lady; lay; leave; left; length; life; little; lord; love; maiden; man; means; meet; men; merlin; moment; monster; mother; near; new; ogier; orlando; owain; people; perceval; place; power; prince; queen; rest; return; rinaldo; ring; river; rock; rogero; rose; round; saw; sea; set; shield; shore; sight; sir; sir gawain; sir launcelot; sir tristram; sister; slain; sleep; son; story; strength; sun; sword; table; tell; thee; things; thou; thought; thy; time; tree; tristram; ulysses; unto; venus; voice; war; water; way; white; wife; wood; words; work; world; years; young; youth
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item: #19 of 21
id: 50004
author: Park, Roswell
title: The Evil Eye, Thanatology, and Other Essays
date: None
words: 93918
flesch: 57
summary: They taught that through countless aeons of time men grew always worse, and were born only to suffer and die, or to do penance in the torments of an indescribable Hell. _Study nature for facts; study lives of great men for inspiration how to use them_
keywords: ages; anatomy; army; barbers; belief; blood; body; bruno; century; christian; church; city; cross; day; days; death; earth; emblem; english; ether; evil; eye; fact; form; general; god; gods; good; great; greek; hand; harvey; having; heart; history; holy; hospital; human; influence; instance; john; king; knights; knowledge; latin; left; life; living; long; man; matter; means; medical; medicine; men; middle; morton; mysteries; nature; new; order; origin; paris; people; phallic; physicians; place; power; practice; present; priests; public; purpose; rome; science; serpent; students; study; subject; sun; surgeons; surgery; symbol; things; time; university; use; way; words; work; world; worship; years
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item: #20 of 21
id: 52414
author: Leatherbee, E. B. (Ethel Brigham)
title: The Christian Mythology
date: None
words: 25124
flesch: 61
summary: Paul, the real founder of the faith, in his first epistle to Timothy, says: For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus (1 Tim. ii, 5); and again in his first epistle to John he remarks: No man hath seen God (1 John iv, 12). The expression used in modern orthodox Protestant prayers, through our Lord, Jesus Christ, is merely the concrete expression of the idea of mediation.
keywords: belief; birth; christian; christianity; church; cross; dead; death; earth; faith; god; gods; holy; idea; jesus; john; life; london; luke; man; mark; mary; matt; men; miracles; mother; new; power; roman; savior; son; time; virgin; world; worship
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item: #21 of 21
id: 7098
author: Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
title: Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic
date: None
words: 51494
flesch: 74
summary: There are also many islands, such as the Azores, which have been supposed at different times to be fragments of Atlantis; and besides all this, the remains of the vanished island have been looked for in all parts of the world. Yet he was very glad when, after passing many islands and narrow straits, the river broadened and they found themselves fairly in the St. Lawrence and past the haunted Bay of Chaleurs.
keywords: arthur; birds; boat; boy; brandan; castle; children; day; days; father; god; gold; good; hand; harald; head; ireland; irish; island; isle; king; king arthur; knights; know; lancelot; legend; life; little; luis; maelduin; man; men; merlin; new; night; ocean; people; place; queen; red; round; sea; ship; shore; silver; sir; son; sword; tale; taliessin; thou; thought; time; voyage; water; way; white; world; years; young; youth
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