TABLE OF CONTENTS BOOK I. FROM KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE TO IRISH GODS PAGE I. AN ITALIAN SCULPTURE AND A BRETON TALE ... 3 II. THE RAPE OF THE FLOWER MAIDEN 12 III. CELTIC STORY-CHANNELS AND STORY-WAYS 24 IV. IRISH GODS OP SUN AND STORM 39 BOOK II. THE YOUNG GOD AND THE OLD V. CUROI, GWRI, AND GAWAIN 55 VI. YELLOW SON OF FAIR 68 VII. MOULDS FOR MYTHS 75 VIII. GARETH AND LYNETE 84 IX. LUG, LANCELOT, AND LOT 90 X. DISENCHANTMENT BY DECAPITATION 98 XI. THE PORTER OF THE OTHER WORLD 105 XII. THE MULE WITHOUT A BRIDLE 110 XIII. THE GIANT HERDSMAN 118 XIV. MERLIN THE SHAPESHIFTER 124 BOOK III. THE CULT OF THE GRAIL XV. THE ANCESTORS OF GALAAD 139 XVI. THE GRAIL HEROES 151 XVII. THE GRAIL CASTLE 158 XVIII. FISHER KING AND MAIMED KING 177 XIX. EVALACH, AVALON, AND MORGAN LE FAY .... 188 XX. Κ AIR BELLI AND KAER SIDI 197 XXI. SONE DE NANSAI 206 XXII. THE SIEGE PERILOUS 215 XXIII. THE GRAIL AND THE TESTING HORN 227 XXIV. THE TREASURES OF THE TUATHA DE 237 XXV. BALAAIN AND GALAAD 250 XXVI. THE MYSTERIES OF THE GRAIL 260 XI xii CONTENTS BOOK IV. BRIDES OF THE SUN PAGE XXVII. THE GRAIL DAMSELS 273 XXVIII. THE GODDESSES OF SAMOTHRACE 285 XXIX. THE HAG TRANSFORMED 296 XXX. PROSERPINE AND FEBUS 302 BOOK V. FROM IRISH AND WELSH GODS TO A BRITISH CHIEFTAIN XXXI. KNIGHTS OF THE SWAN 311 XXXII. THE CAPTIVE GOD 320 XXXIII. GAWAIN, POPE GREGORY, AND MORDRED 331 XXXIV. THE GODS AND GEOFFREY OF MONMOUTH 344 XXXV. ARTHUR MAB UTER 350 CHARTS 356 LIST OF WELCH NAMES 359 LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS 360 INDEX OF NAMES 361 .

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