FOOTNOTES:

[1] Fictions of Romance, popular in Scandinavia at an early period.

[2] Heliodorus chose rather to be deprived of his see than burn his

Ethiopics. The bishop's name would have slept with his fathers,

the romancer is remembered.

[3] First exploit of the celebrated Regner Lodbrog.

[4] Knights of the round table.

[5] The Paladines of France.

[6] Instead of forging the life of a saint, Archbishop Turpin was

better employed in falsifying the history of Charlemagne.

[7] A bull was issued, commanding all good citizens to believe

Ariosto's poem, founded upon Turpin's history.

[8] Arabian fictions ingrafted on the Gothic romance.

[9] Romance of the Rose, written soon after the Crusades.

[10] Early prose Romances, originally Spanish.

[11] Fictions of Romance, allegorized by Spenser.

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