The 'Historia' is looked upon as an epoch-making book, owing to the impulse it gave to the literature of Romance. Legends afloat among the natives of Wales and Bretagne were now given a literary garb which rendered them sufficiently attractive to awaken the interest of the world in general, and the imagination of the mediæval poet was aroused by the chivalric glamour which the historian threw over his descriptions of Arthur's Court. It was a main source, but not the exclusive one of Arthurian legend, for independent of the fact that many characteristic features of the latter are not mentioned by him, there is evidence of Welsh fables being extant in the 12th century, which supplied material for later romances apart from Geoffrey's history. This work is the fountain-head of medieval romance, the principal source of the legends of Merlin and Arthur, which were amplified by the romancers by material from Celtic tradition. Geoffrey's work is the basis of Wace's 'Roman de Brut' and of Layamon's 'Brut'. =GERMAN ANTHOLOGIES: COLLECTIONS. Poetical, Fairy Tales, Folk-Tales, and Traditional Literature.= AIKMAN, C. M. _Tr._ POEMS FROM THE GERMAN. 1892. [BECKFORD, WM.]. POPULAR TALES OF THE GERMANS. 1791. CARLYLE, THOS. _Tr._ GERMAN ROMANCES: specimens of the chief authors, with biographical and critical notices. 1827. CARLYLE, THOS. TRANSLATIONS FROM MUSAEUS, TIECK AND RICHTER. 2 v. 1858. CRAIGMYLE, ELIZ. _Tr._ GERMAN BALLADS. 1892. [A good collection of popular German poetry.] GILLIES, ROBERT P. GERMAN STORIES. Selected from the Works of Hoffman, De la Motte Fouqué, Pichler, Kruse and others, 3 v. 1826. GRIMM, JAKOB, K. L. GERMAN POPULAR STORIES. _Tr._ from the 'Kinder- und Haus-Märchen' by Edgar Taylor, 1823-26. HELLMAN, FRANCES. _Tr._ LYRICS AND BALLADS OF HEINE AND OTHER GERMAN POETS. 1892. HOLCROFT RICHARD. TALES FROM THE GERMAN. 1826. LEMON, MARK. _Tr._ LEGENDS OF NUMBER NIP. 1864. OXENFORD, JOHN _and_ C. A. FEILING. _Tr._ TALES FROM THE GERMAN, comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors. [1850.] ROSCOE. THOS. GERMAN NOVELISTS. 4 v. 1826. SANTINE, X. B. _Ed._ MYTHS OF THE RHINE. _Tr._ 1840. 'Gives a good sketch of primitive Teuton times, of the Druids, of Odinic worship, etc.'. SOANE, GEORGE. SPECIMENS OF GERMAN ROMANCES. 3 v. 1826. TAYLOR, W. HISTORIC SURVEY OF GERMAN POETRY, interspersed with various translations. 3 v. 1828-30. WESTALL, W. _Tr._ TALES AND LEGENDS OF SAXONY AND LUSATIA. 1877. =GERVASE, MONK OF CANTERBURY.= _C._ 1188. Chronicle of the reigns of Stephen, Henry II., and Richard I. _Ed._ by Stubbs. v. 1-11. Rolls Ser. 1879-80. =GESTA ROMANORUM.= _C._ 1440. A collection of tales from various sources, written in Latin. Was the storehouse of material for many famous writers. English _Tr._ probably made in Henry VI's time. Printed by Wynkyn de Worde, 1510-15. _Ed._ 'Early English Versions' in E.E.T.S., 1899.