No one can deny the enduring power of medieval myths and legends. Tales of King Arthur, Tintagel, Merlin, Robin Hood, magic, dragons, giants, demons, and the Holy Grail are as fascinating for us today as they have ever been.
However, the stories we have inherited from our medieval forebears have often been transformed by the embellishments and additions of later generations. In every century since the Middle Ages, people re-imagined, re-told, and sometimes radically changed stories to suit the audience of the day. This book aims to transport the reader back to the age of the Plantagenets and re-tell these stories as they would have been understood at the time. It explores the stories in detail and looks at what they meant to people living then, how they were told and why they were important.
Explore some of the most puzzling and captivating mysteries of the Middle Ages. What lay behind the legend of the King Arthur? What tales did people tell of the mysterious and dangerous medieval fairy? Who was Wayland Smith? What was it like to listen to a medieval ghost story? Or tales of Mermaids leading the unwary to a watery fate off the Cornish coast.
