Baquet's Guide to the World's Classics: Legend

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Kitab-i Dede Korkut, Collection of Turkmen Epics
(15th century)

Dede ("Grandfather") Korkut, the narrator

Just the Facts:

Name: Kitab-i Dede Korkut
Known as: The Book of Dede Korkut
Dates: 15th century
Place: Central Asia (?)
Language: Oghuz Turkish
What it is: collection of Turkmen epics

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, English Poem
(late 14th century)

Just the Facts:

Name: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Dates: late 14th century
Place: England
Language: English
What it is: English poem; anonymous, but thought to be by "The Pearl Poet"

The Mabinogion, Welsh Story Collection
(12th-13th centuries)

Ceridwen, an enchantress in the Mabinogion,
by Christopher Williams

Just the Facts:

Name: The Mabinogion
Dates: 12th-13th centuries
Place: Wales
Language: Welsh
What it is: Welsh story collection, including Welsh and other Celtic traditions

Stories of Robin Hood, English Folk Hero
(Late Middle Ages)

The Passing of Robin Hood by N. C. Wyeth

Just the Facts:

Name: Robin Hood
Dates: Late Middle Ages
Place: England
Language: English
What they were: songs and stories of an English folk hero of the lower classes who "robbed from the rich and gave to the poor"

The Secret History of the Mongols
(after 1227)

Genghis Khan

Just the Facts:

Name: Mongolyn nuuts tovchoo
Known as: The Secret History of the Mongols, called in Chinese Yuanchao mishi, or The Secret History of the Yuan Dynasty
Dates: after the death of Genghis Khan in 1227
Place: Mongolia? China?
Language: Mongolian
What it is: a Mongolian account of the life of Genghis Khan

Geoffrey of Monmouth, Welsh Historian
(c. 1100-c. 1155)

Merlin prophesies for Vortigern, from a manuscript
of the Historia Regum Britanniae

Just the Facts:

Name: Geoffrey of Monmouth
Known as: Galfridus Monemutensis, Galfridus Arturus
Dates: c. 1100-c. 1155
Place: Wales, England
Language: Latin
Who he was: Welsh historian; Historia Regum Britanniae (The History of the Kings of Britain)

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Kitab-i Dede Korkut, Collection of Turkmen Epics (15th century)

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, English Poem(late 14th century)

The Mabinogion, Welsh Story Collection(12th-13th centuries)

Stories of Robin Hood, English Folk Hero(Late Middle Ages)

The Secret History of the Mongols(after 1227)

Geoffrey of Monmouth, Welsh Historian(c. 1100-c. 1155)

Kitab-i Dede Korkut, Collection of Turkmen Epics
(15th century)

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, English Poem
(late 14th century)

The Mabinogion, Welsh Story Collection
(12th-13th centuries)

Stories of Robin Hood, English Folk Hero
(Late Middle Ages)

The Secret History of the Mongols
(after 1227)

Geoffrey of Monmouth, Welsh Historian
(c. 1100-c. 1155)