Legend Land, Vol. 4 / Being a Further Collection of Some of the Old Tales Told in Those Nearer Western Parts of Britain Served by the Great Western Railway

Being a further collection of some of the Old Tales told in those nearer Western Parts of Britain served by the Great Western Railway
Volume Four Price Sixpence
LEGEND LAND
Being a further collection of some of the OLD TALES told in those nearer Western Parts of Britain served by the GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY , now retold by LYONESSE
VOLUME FOUR
Published in 1923 by
This is a reprint in book form of the fourth series of The Line to Legend Land leaflets, together with a Supplement, “Sumer is icumen in,” the oldest English song.
The Map at the beginning forms a guide to the localities of the first six legends, that at the back to the remainder.
Printed by Kelly & Kelly, Moor Lane, London, E.C.2
Volume Four brings Legend Land nearer to the great centres of modern life. It comprises some of the old stories told of districts within easy reach of such busy cities as London, Birmingham and Bristol.
In it you will find historic and pre-historic romance mingled. Some of its tales are as old as any in our land, tales born of the very ancient belief that saw in “Druid” stones a human origin. Other stories are romances of much later date, of events almost within the memory of our great-grandparents’ great-grandparents.
Here you will find two legends that come from Shakespeare’s land, legends that must have been well known to that great lover and teller of old tales. And in the legend of Herne the Hunter you will recognise a story which Shakespeare himself told in “The Merry Wives of Windsor.” And it was probably an old tale when he repeated it.