The Three Days' Tournament: A Study in Romance and Folk-Lore / Being an Appendix to the Author's 'Legend of Sir Lancelot'

by Jessie L. Weston

Grimm Library

No. 15

THE THREE DAYS’ TOURNAMENT
(Appendix to No. 12, ‘The Legend of Sir Lancelot du Lac’)

The Grimm Library.
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I. GEORGIAN FOLK-TALES. Translated by Marjory Wardrop. Cr. 8vo, pp. xii + 175. 5s. II., III., V. THE LEGEND OF PERSEUS. By Edwin Sidney Hartland, F.S.A. 3 vols. £1, 7s. 6d. Vol. I. THE SUPERNATURAL BIRTH. Cr. 8vo, pp. xxxiv + 228 (not sold separately). Vol. II. THE LIFE-TOKEN. Cr. 8vo, pp. viii + 445. 12s. 6d. Vol. III. ANDROMEDA. MEDUSA. Cr. 8vo, pp. xxxvii + 225. 7s. 6d. IV., VI. THE VOYAGE OF BRAN, SON OF FEBAL. An Eighth-century Irish Saga, now first edited and translated by Kuno Meyer. Vol. I. With an Essay upon the Happy Otherworld in Irish Myth, by Alfred Nutt. Cr. 8vo, pp. xvii + 331. 10s. 6d. Vol. II. With an Essay on the Celtic Doctrine of Rebirth, by Alfred Nutt. Cr. 8vo, pp. xii + 352. 10s. 6d. VII. THE LEGEND OF SIR GAWAIN. Studies upon its Original Scope and Significance. By Jessie L. Weston, translator of Wolfram von Eschenbach’s ‘Parzival.’ Cr. 8vo, pp. xiv + 111. 4s. VIII. THE CUCHULLIN SAGA IN IRISH LITERATURE. Being a Collection of Stories relating to the Hero Cuchullin, translated from the Irish by various Scholars. Compiled and Edited, with Introduction and Notes, by Eleanor Hull. Cr. 8vo, pp. lxxix + 316. 7s. 6d. IX., X. THE PRE- AND PROTO-HISTORIC FINNS, both Eastern and Western, with the Magic Songs of the West Finns. By the Hon. John Abercromby. I., pp. xxiv + 363. II., pp. xiii + 400. £1, 1s. XI. THE HOME OF THE EDDIC POEMS. With Especial Reference to the ‘Helgi Lays,’ by Sophus Bugge, Professor in the University of Christiania. Revised Edition, with a new Introduction concerning Old Norse Mythology. Translated from the Norwegian by William Henry Schofield, Instructor in Harvard University. Cr. 8vo, pp. lxxix + 408. 12s. 6d. XII. THE LEGEND OF SIR LANCELOT DU LAC. Studies upon its Origin, Development, and Position in the Arthurian Romantic Cycle. By Jessie L. Weston. Cr. 8vo, pp. xii + 252. 7s. 6d. XIII. THE WIFE OF BATH’S TALE. Its Sources and Analogues. By C. F. Maynadier. Pp. xii + 222. 6s. XIV. SOHRAB AND RUSTEM. The Epic Theme of a Combat between Father and Son. A Study of its Genesis and Use in Literature and Popular Tradition. By Murray Anthony Potter, A.M. Pp. xii + 235. 6s.

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THE
Three Days’ Tournament

A Study in Romance and Folk-Lore

Being an Appendix to the Author’s ‘Legend of Sir Lancelot’

By
Jessie L. Weston
AUTHOR OF ‘THE LEGEND OF SIR GAWAIN’ ETC., ETC.

London
Published by David Nutt
At the Sign of the Phœnix
Long Acre
1902

Edinburgh: Printed by T. and A. Constable