Excerpt from On the Legend of Tristan, Vol. 1: Its Orgin in Myth and Its Development in Romance Egypt war was waged by Seb the serpent and his giants against Ophion the Good Principle in India by Vrita against Indra in Persia by Ahriman against Ormuzd; in Greece by the Titans against the Gods and in Scandinavia by Fenrir against Odin and the iesir. Ofa similar character is the terrible vengeance wrought by the Huns on the Bur gundians, with which the Nibelungenlied so tragically ends. The same idea is expressed in the tale of the valiant hero rescuing a beauteous maiden from the power of a malignant monster, and receiving her hand as his reward. I will merely point, for example, to the legends told of the Egyptian Perses or the serpent Typhon, of Perseus and Andromeda, of Apollo and the Python, and of Theseus and Ariadne, in which we may notice the singular parallels that even many of the names suggest. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.