The Junior Classics, Volume 2: Folk Tales and Myths

by Unknown

CONTENTS

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Stories from Northern Sagas
The Northmen’s Story of How All Things Began	E. M. Wilmot-Buxton	[9]
How the Queen of the Sky Gave Gifts to Men	E. M. Wilmot-Buxton	[17]
The Dwarfs and the Fairies	A. and E. Keary	[21]
How Thor Went to Jötunheim	A. and E. Keary	[26]
How Thor’s Hammer Was Lost and Found	E. M. Wilmot-Buxton	[40]
Iduna’s Apples of Youth	A. and E. Keary	[51]
How the Fenris Wolf Was Chained	E. M. Wilmot-Buxton	[72]
The Story of Balder the Beautiful	E. M. Wilmot-Buxton	[80]
The Wonderful Quern Stones	Julia Goddard	[91]
The Story of Brunhilda and Siegfried
Brunhilda and the Magic Sword	Constance Maud	[99]
Brunhilda’s Sleep Guarded by Loki’s Fiery Arm	Constance Maud	[107]
How Siegfried Killed the Dragon	Constance Maud	[115]
How Siegfried Finds Brunhilda	Constance Maud	[133]
The Story of Lohengrin
The Plot Against the Beautiful Elsa of Brabant	Constance Maud	[141]
The Knights of the Holy Grail	Constance Maud	[148]
Lohengrin the Champion of Elsa of Brabant	Constance Maud	[150]
Ortruda Plots for Revenge	Constance Maud	[158]
The Departure of Lohengrin	Constance Maud	[162]
The Wooing of the Daughter of the King of Ireland	From the Gudrun Lay	[171]
Three Tales of the Rhine
The Lady of Kynast	Xavier B. Saintine	[180]
The Guardian Angel	Xavier B. Saintine	[183]
The Giant Who Laughed at a Dwarf	Xavier B. Saintine	[185]
The Legend of Saint Christopher	Lillian M. Gask	[187]
Prince Ivan and the Gray Wolf	Lillian M. Gask	[195]
King Robert of Sicily	Henry W. Longfellow	[213]
Myths of Greece and Rome
The Riddle of the Sphinx	Elsie F. Buckley	[222]
The Gift of Athene	Sir George W. Cox	[250]
Daphne, Child of the Morning	Sir George W. Cox	[253]
The Vengeance of Apollo	Sir George W. Cox	[255]
The Story of Arion	Sir George W. Cox	[261]
The Battle of the Frogs and the Mice	Sir George W. Cox	[267]
Orpheus the Sweet Singer	Sir George W. Cox	[273]
Niobe, a Victim of Latona’s Jealousy	Thomas Bulfinch	[278]
The Sad Story of Pyramus and Thisbe	Thomas Bulfinch	[282]
The Twelve Labors of Hercules	Thomas Bulfinch	[286]
Hercules’s Search for the Apples of Hesperides	Nathaniel Hawthorne	[292]
The Story of Cupid and Psyche	Thomas Bulfinch	[318]
How Phaëton Drove the Sun	Thomas Bulfinch	[330]
Baucis and Philemon Changed into Two Trees	Thomas Bulfinch	[339]
The Paradise of Children	Nathaniel Hawthorne	[342]
Two Tales of the Hudson
Rip Van Winkle	Washington Irving	[364]
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow	Washington Irving	[386]
Some Animal Myths of Various Lands
The Hare Who Thought the World Had Come to an End A Hindoo Tale translated from the Jataka	H. N. Francis	[430]
The Watering of the Saplings A Hindoo Tale translated from the Jataka	Rev. W. H. D. Rouse	[433]
The Old Hare and the Elephants A Hindoo Tale translated from the Hitopadeca	Sir Edwin Arnold	[434]
The Elephant Has a Bet With the Tiger A Tale from the Malay Peninsula	Walter Skeat	[436]
How the Tortoise Out-Ran the Deer A Tale from the Amazon River	C. F. Hartt	[441]
Which was the Stronger, the Tortoise, the Tapir, or the Whale? A Tale from the Amazon River	C. F. Hartt	[444]
How the Turtle Got His Shell A Tale from New Guinea	Annie Ker	[446]
The Legend of Rata A Maori Myth	Sir George Grey	[450]
Why the Hippopotamus Lives in the Water A West African Myth	Elphinstone Dayrell	[455]
Why the Elephant Has Small Eyes A West African Myth	Elphinstone Dayrell	[457]
The Boy Who Set a Snare for the Sun An American Indian Myth	H. R. Schoolcraft	[460]
The Bird Lover	Cornelius Mathews	[465]
Wunzh, the Father of Indian Corn	Cornelius Mathews	[479]
When Brer Wolf Have His Corn Shucking A Tale told by the Georgia Negroes	Anonymous	[487]
Brer Rabbit’s Cool Air Swing A Tale told by the Georgia Negroes	Anonymous	[490]
Three Stories of the Seasons
The Four Seasons	Lillian M. Gask	[493]
The Three Lemons	Lillian M. Gask	[500]
The Winter-Spirit and His Visitor	Cornelius Mathews	[512]

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