What's New Archive 1997-2003
11 May 2003:
New in Swashbucklers & Fops: The Novels of Rafael Sabatini.
10 May 2003:
Tam Lin will be made into an animated film designed by Wendy and Brian Froud
from a script by Neil Gaiman. Get the scoop in
Ballads & Broadsides: Tam Lin.
8 September 2002:
Beowulf on Steorarume (Beowulf in Cyberspace)
features a new critical electronic edition of the text,
English and German translations,
introduction, links to resources, and glossary. Find it in
Beowulf: Sources.
Look for many new links in Poets & Painters: William Morris.
24 August 2002:
We've updated many links in King Arthur and
the Matter of Britain. See General
Sources,
History & Archaeology,
and Welsh Bards.
23 March 2002:
Two new tales of the Greenwood: Robin Hood by Henry Gilbert and
The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson, both in lovely illustrated online editions
from Kellscraft Studio. Find them in
The Robin Hood Pages: Sources.
11 March 2002:
Francis James Child's The English and Scottish Popular Ballads
is being brought back into print in a new corrected edition from Loomis
House Press; get the details in
Ballads & Broadsides: Sources.
21 January 2002:
The things one can find on the web! Alfred Lord Tennyson's
The Foresters: Robin Hood and Maid Marian, with MIDI files
and the complete score for the songs and music by Arthur
Sullivan, at the Gilbert and Sullivan Archive. Find the link in
The Robin Hood Pages: Sources.
18 November 2001:
We've added many new links in King Arthur and
the Matter of Britain. See The Quest
for Arthur,
History & Archaeology,
and Merlin & the History of Britain.
1 July 2001:
Get the latest on the excavations of Blackbeard's flagship
Queen Anne's Revenge in Pirates & Privateers:
Blackbeard, and check out
our updated Pirate Resources.
14 June 2001:
New in King Arthur and
the Matter of Britain: The Quest
for Arthur examines the historical, literary and legendary origins
of the king.
And check out our new sources for the primary texts of
The Welsh Bards and
additional links in
History & Archaeology.
9 June 2001:
Now you can use search Legends with Google!
Visit our updated Search Page.
23 November 2000:
We've updated and expanded Ballads & Broadsides with new
Sources and more material on
Tam Lin.
We also expanded our Swashbucklers page
to include links to the complete library of novels featuring
The Scarlet Pimpernel.
5 August 2000:
New in Paladins & Princes: Additional resources
on El Cid
Campeador, including links to an extensive online library of scholarly
texts about medieval Iberia.
7 November 1999:
New in Ballads & Broadsides: a
link to the Broadside Ballads Project at the Bodleian
Library, which makes digitized images from its collection
available on the 'net. The link is in
Ballad Resources.
30 May 1999:
New in Paladins & Princes:
Aucassin &
Nicolette, a fable about the triumph of True Love
from medieval France.
Did you know? If you're curious
about the illustrations in Legends, just click on the link to
Notes on the Illustrations at the bottom
of every page for the artist, publisher, and source for the
picture, plus more detail than you'd ever want to know about how
the picture was manipulated for its appearance here.
21 March 1999:
New in Ballads & Broadsides: a collection of
Child Ballads at Folk Music of England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and America, and
a project to create a digital collection of Border Ballads at the University of Glasgow. Find the links in
Ballad Resources.
29 January 1999:
New in King Arthur & the Matter of Britain:
Elaine of Astolat explores
the story and haunting imagery of the Lady
of Shalott.
And a new link in Erin & Alba: Patrick
Brown's The
Ulster Cycle includes 25 tales from the north of Ireland.
28 November 1998:
New in Fairy Tales:
Selchies
tells stories of the seal-folk of Celtic lands.
18 October 1998:
So many of our key Arthurian and Robin Hood resources
have moved their pages that I haven't bothered to tag all the
new URLs; the updated links are in
The Robin Hood Pages
and King Arthur and
the Matter of Britain.
21 September 1998:
New in Pirates & Privateers,
Gráinne O'Malley,
the sixteenth century "Pirate Queen of Connaught."
Fans of the Robin of Sherwood television series
will want to take a look at
Robin Hood: Bold Outlaw of Barnsdale and Sherwood;
find the link on
The Robin Hood Pages.
4 September 1998:
Andrew Lang's A Collection of Ballads (1910)
is now available as electronic text from Project
Gutenberg; the link is in
Ballads & Broadsides:
Ballad Resources.
17 August 1998:
Poets & Painters crosses the
Atlantic to profile America's most important
writer/illustrator of adventure fiction,
Howard Pyle.
16 August 1998:
Legends celebrates its first anniversary with a new
section, Poets & Painters,
celebrating the artists and writers who brought the
legends to life. The master of them all is
William Morris,
father of the arts and crafts movement and inventor
of the modern fantasy novel.
21 June 1998:
New in King Arthur & the Matter of Britain:
Sir Tristan &
La Belle Iseult,
a legend of Cornwall. And in History
& Archaeology, a link to The Ruin
and Conquest of Britain 400 A.D. - 600 A.D., a reconstruction from
primary sources by Howard Wiseman.
6 May 1998:
New in Ballads & Broadsides:
Tam Lin & Fair
Janet looks at this well-loved
and influential story of fairy enchantment and
true love.
2 May 1998:
New in King Arthur & the Matter of Britain:
Merlin & the History
of Britain explores the origins of the story
of Myrddin Emrys. And in History
& Archaeology, a link to an interactive
gazetteer of Sub-Roman Britain.
6 April 1998:
New in The Robin Hood Pages:
Under the Greenwood
Tree
explores outlaw legends of medieval England.
And check out Alexandre Dumas, deux siècles
de littérature vivante, a new website on Dumas and his
works from La Société des
amis d'Alexandre Dumas (in French, with English summaries).
20 March 1998:
New in King Arthur & the Matter of Britain:
Percival the Fool,
whose story is essentially unchanged after 800 years.
25 February 1998:
New in Pirates & Privateers, the
adventures of Captain Sir Francis
Drake, Queen Elizabeth's Sea-Dragon.
13 February 1998:
New in Paladins & Princes,
the story of Roland, the
nephew of Charlemagne who became the Orlando
of renaissance fantasy.
2 February 1998:
New in Fairy Tales: Donald G. Keller
profiles editor, artist, and writer Terri Windling
in Into the Woods:
The Faery Worlds of Terri Windling.
14 January 1998:
A new section Paladins & Princes
begins our exploration of heroes of
the Middle Ages with
Knighthood in
Flower
and El Cid
Campeador.
9 January 1998:
More in Sagas & Sea-Kings:
The Northern World
is an introduction to Norse mythology and Icelandic
literature, while The
Viking Age separates history from myth.
29 December 1997:
A new section, Sagas & Sea-Kings, kicks
off with
Sigurd the Volsung,
a story from the Eddas retold by Richard Wagner
and William Morris, and an important early influence
on the imaginary worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien.
20 December 1997:
New in The Robin Hood Pages:
Links to
electronic texts of Howard Pyle's The Merry Adventures
of Robin Hood and to J. Walker McSpadden's
Robin Hood.
13 December 1997:
New in King Arthur & the Matter of Britain:
Guenevere the Queen
explores the evolution of her character and the stories of
Lancelot.
4 December 1997:
New in Swashbucklers & Fops: The
Three Musketeers as electronic text, an essay
by Robert Louis Stevenson on The Vicomte de Bragelonne,
and a sneak preview of the new film of The Man in the Iron
Mask, all on our new
Alexandre Dumas page.
3 December 1997:
A new section on Beowulf includes
Sources
for this Old English epic and for study of
the Anglo-Saxon world.
10 November 1997:
New in Pirates & Privateers: A link
to Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates online, and a
new page on
Blackbeard the Pirate,
including updates on the excavation of the wreck
that may be Blackbeard's flagship Queen Anne's Revenge.
21 October 1997:
New in Shakespeare's Stories: additional links in
Shakespearean Sources,
and a new page on Macbeth.
16 October 1997:
Not being content with taking on King Arthur, we take
on Shakespeare as well! In the new section
Shakespeare's Stories:
Shakespearean Sources
and Hamlet.
2 October 1997:
I said that building a comprehensive Arthurian site might
be redundant, not that I wasn't going to try it. New
in King Arthur & the Matter of Britain:
Malory's Le Morte Darthur
and Tales of Gawain.
8 September 1997:
In King Arthur & the Matter of Britain:
History & Archaeology
has a new map of Roman Britain.
7 September 1997:
In our newest section, Fairy Tales: Classic
Tales explores the origins and evolution of Cinderella, Red Riding Hood,
and other classic fairy stories.
In Ballads & Broadsides: We have expanded
Shake
Loose the Borders with links to more materials on the culture
and history of the Anglo-Scottish Border.
27 August 1997:
New in Swashbucklers & Fops:
Rapier & Dagger
provides access to primary texts on fencing from the
sixteenth to the nineteenth century.
24 August 1997: A new
section, Erin & Alba,
explores the history and mythology of the Gaelic-speaking
lands of Ireland, Scotland, and Man.
16 August 1997:
New in King Arthur & and the Matter of Britain:
The Welsh Bards
links to the Mabinogion and the tales of Taliesin and Aneirin,
with sources for the Welsh language and medieval Wales.
15 August 1997:
New in Ballads & Broadsides: Shake
Loose the Borders explores the lore and history of the
English/Scottish border, from George Macdonald Fraser to Dorothy
Dunnett to Sir Walter Scott.
10 August 1997:
New in Ballads & Broadsides:
True Thomas, our page
on Thomas of Erceldoune, better known as Thomas the Rhymer.
31 July 1997:
New in Swashbucklers & Fops:
Swordplay features an appreciation of
William Hobbs, fight arranger
for such films as The Four Musketeers,
Robin and Marian, and Rob Roy.
29 July 1997:
Legends is born. Everything is new.
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