Stories of the Olden Time

ISBN: 9781330613139 出版年：2016 页码：265 James Johonnot Forgotten Books

When we go back to the early history of any people, we find that fact and fiction are strangely blended, and that the stories told are largely made up of traditions distorted and exaggerated by imagination and time. The myth, however, is valuable as representing the first steps of a nation in the evolution of its literature from a barbaric state, and as indicating special national characteristics.