item: #1 of 5 id: 12455 author: Guerber, H. A. (Hélène Adeline) title: Legends of the Middle Ages Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art date: None words: 117430 flesch: 73 summary: Gunther wishes to marry, 58; test of strength of, 60; defeat of, 60; leaves her own country, 62; objects to Kriemhild's marriage, 62; binds Gunther, 63; is conquered by Siegfried, and loses fabulous strength, 63; invites Siegfried and Kriemhild to Worms, 64; quarrels with Kriemhild, 64; in care of Rumolt, 75; son of made king of Burgundy, 85; Aslaug daughter of, 274. BRU'TE. Triumph in Spain, 143; massacre of, 145; enmity between Moors and, 154; can take Toledo, 290; Bucar retreats before, 299; Moors routed by, 299. CHRONICLE OF TURPIN, 140. CID, THE, 282-300; birth of, 282; Ximena accuses, 284; Ximena marries, 285; pilgrimage of to Santiago de Compostela, 285; adventure with leper, 286; duel of with Martin Gonzalez, 286; saved by Moorish kings, 287; at Zamora with Ximena, 287; defeats champion of Henry III., 288; vassal of Don Sancho, 288; victories of, 289; conducts siege of Zamora, 291; banished by Alfonso, 293; at Valencia, 294; cowardly sons-in-law of, 295; daughters of illtreated, 296; at the Cortes, 297; offers Babieça to Alfonso, 297; returns to Valencia, 298; warned of coming death, 298; last instructions of, 298; death of, 299: last victory of, 299; body of in state, 300; sword of, 300; chronicle of, 302. CI-SAIRE', PASS OF. keywords: adventures; arthur; aymon; bade; battle; bear; beowulf; brother; castle; charlemagne; cid; come; court; daughter; day; dead; death; dietrich; don; dragon; emperor; etzel; father; fight; frithiof; giant; good; grail; great; gudrun; gunther; hagen; hall; hand; head; hero; hildebrand; holy; home; huon; ingeborg; iseult; king; knights; kriemhild; lancelot; lay; life; like; long; lord; love; magic; man; marriage; master; mediaeval; men; merlin; mother; near; new; oberon; ogier; ortnit; parzival; people; place; princess; queen; ragnar; renaud; return; reynard; ring; roland; round; saga; saw; sea; set; sidenote; siegfried; sir; slain; son; sons; spite; story; sword; thou; thy; time; tristan; von; war; way; wife; wolfdietrich; years; young cache: 12455.txt plain text: 12455.txt item: #2 of 5 id: 14391 author: None title: The Cattle-Raid of Cualnge (Tain Bo Cualnge) : An Old Irish Prose-Epic date: None words: 43089 flesch: 90 summary: 'Cuchulainn Mac Sualtaim, sister's son to Conchobar,' said Cuchulainn; 'and avoid me,' said he. Then they begin to wrestle for a long time, and Mand overthrows Cuchulainn thrice, so that the charioteer urged him. keywords: ailill; arms; ath; battle; boys; camp; chariot; charioteer; combat; conchobar; cuchulainn; day; diad; fergus; ford; gold; hair; hand; head; horses; host; ireland; mac; man; medb; men; night; note; red; round; shield; spear; sword; ulstermen; warrior; white cache: 14391.txt plain text: 14391.txt item: #3 of 5 id: 30332 author: Morris, William title: The Earthly Paradise: A Poem (Part II) date: None words: 71570 flesch: 73 summary: Purblind are most of folk, The happy are the masters of the earth Which ever give small heed to hapless worth; So goes the world, and this we needs must bear Like eld and death: yet there were some men there Who drank in silence to the memory Of those who failed on earth great men to be, Though better than the men who won the crown. So in few days what man shall know The needy Scholar, seeing me Great in the place where great men be, The richest man in all the land? Beside the best then shall I stand, And some unheard-of palace have; And if my soul I may not save In heaven, yet here in all men's eyes Will I make some sweet paradise, With marble cloisters, and with trees And bubbling wells, and fantasies, keywords: cast; day; days; dead; death; earth; eyes; face; fair; fear; feet; folk; gold; golden; hand; head; heart; king; land; lay; life; love; man; men; midst; new; night; o'er; place; psyche; round; set; sun; sweet; thee; thine; things; thou; thought; thy; time; words; world cache: 30332.txt plain text: 30332.txt item: #4 of 5 id: 38110 author: None title: Aucassin & Nicolette, and Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends date: None words: 74589 flesch: 84 summary: The stories written by such men as these are racy of their soil, and give the very form and pressure of their times. He bade him also to seek out such knights as should pass through the town to refresh and solace themselves in the company of his lord. keywords: amile; amis; aucassin; child; count; daughter; day; days; emperor; father; friend; god; good; graelent; hand; heart; house; king; knight; lady; land; lord; love; man; men; nicolette; place; right; robert; set; sir; sire; son; thee; thing; thou; time; way; wife; words; world; years cache: 38110.txt plain text: 38110.txt item: #5 of 5 id: 831 author: Chrétien, de Troyes, active 12th century title: Four Arthurian Romances date: None words: 192742 flesch: 86 summary: Then what do I think of him so much, if he pleases me no more than other men? Never, my whole life long, do I wish to be served by other man than you. keywords: arms; battle; body; cause; chretien; cliges; come; court; damsel; day; death; delay; desire; emperor; enide; erec; eyes; fair; fear; footnote; friend; gawain; god; good; grief; hand; head; heart; honour; horse; joy; king; knight; know; lady; lancelot; land; leave; life; lion; lord; lord yvain; love; man; men; need; news; people; place; queen; replies; return; right; shield; sire; son; tell; thee; thou; thought; thy; time; town; truth; way; wish; word; yvain cache: 831.txt plain text: 831.txt