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Dragons, Elves and Heroes

Lin Carter

First published 1969
Publisher Ballantine Books
Format Paperback
Type Anthology
Catalog ID 01731
Cover art Sheryl Slavitt
Pages v+277
Price $0.95
ISBN 0345017315

  • "First Printing: October, 1969"; no number line
  • "Cover Painting: Sheryl Slavitt" on copyright page, no visible signature on the artwork
  • "The Ogre" - from Beowulf, in Medieval Myths. {{Tr|{{A|Norma Lorre Goodrich}}}}.
  • "The High History of the Sword Gram" - from The Volsunga Saga. {{Tr|{{A|William Morris}}}}.
  • "Manawyddan Son of the Boundless" is a retelling of a story from The Mabinogion.
  • "Barrow-Wight" - from The Grettir Saga, translated by S. Baring-Gould.
  • "The Last Giant of the Elder Age" - from The Kiev Cycle, translated by Isabel Florence Hapgood.
  • "The Lost Words of Power" (poem) - from The Kalevala, translated by John Martin Crawford.
  • "Wonderful Things Beyond Cathay" - from Mandeville's Travels, edited by Arthur Layard.
  • "Tales of the Wisdom of the Ancients" - from The Gesta Romanorum, translated by Charles Swan and revised by Wynnard Hooper.
  • "Rustum Against the City of Demons" - from The Shah Namah by Firdausi, translated by Lin Carter
  • Printed in the US Voltaire's The Princess of Babylon is the 1885 translation (minus Chapter IX) from Voltaire's Romances. Published by Peter Eckler. The excerpt of Palmerin of England are from the 1807 edition "corrected" by {{A|Robert Southey}}.
  • ISBN derived from partial SBN on spine (345·01731·095)

Year Reviewer Publication
1969 Tony Lewis Locus, #44 December 17, 1969
1970 Paul Walker Science Fiction Review, April 1970
1971 Robert A. W. Lowndes Bizarre Fantasy Tales #2, March 1971
1978 Klaus Leicht Magira, #31
1983 Everett F. Bleiler The Guide to Supernatural Fiction
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