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While resting one day, a young man called Thomas was approached by a beautiful woman who told him she was the queen of elfland and had come to take him away with her for seven years.  The pair rode to a beautiful, fruit-laden garden where she showed him three paths:  one was that of righteousness, another that of wickedness, while the third led to elfland.  After taking the last, they... More

While resting one day, a young man called Thomas was approached by a beautiful woman who told him she was the queen of elfland and had come to take him away with her for seven years.  The pair rode to a beautiful, fruit-laden garden where she showed him three paths:  one was that of righteousness, another that of wickedness, while the third led to elfland.  After taking the last, they traveled for forty days through rivers of blood which ran into the springs of elfland, filled thus by the evil actions of men.  When the couple eventually arrived the queen gave him an apple: once he ate it and returned home he would never lie again.  Seven years later, Thomas duly won a reputation among his fellow villagers as a prophet whose predictions all came to pass, earning him the name of True Thomas.

 



This tale and many others can be found in Legends of Chivalry:  Medieval Myth, in an exciting series called Myth and Mankind, a culture-by-culture examination of world myth and its historical roots.  Whether exploring the myths of Persia, early America, China or Greece, each book brings an ancient culture to life as never before.

 

As a result, this is a world history like no other.  Every book is filled with the strange stories, mystic rites, angry gods, vision quests and magic symbols at the heart of all cultures – but left out of most history books.  Such myths are central to understanding how, since the dawn of time, people around theworld have sought to explain birth, death, creation, love and other mysteries of life.  These myths lie at the intersection of imagination and history, wisdom and experience, dreams and reality.

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