From this notable and engaging study we learn that the education of the Arthurian hero is a romance motif as significant to the hero's exploits as his beseiged damsel or his fierce joust. Accounts of the births and childhoods of religious and mythical protagonists at once prefigure and explaining their later powers.
Originally published in 1966.
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- ISBN13 9780807810156
- Publish Date 1 January 1966
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 8 February 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint The University of North Carolina Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 258
- Language English