The Hamish Hamilton Book of Sea Legends

A collection of poetry, ballads, songs, sea-myths and legends.

MERMAIDS AND MONSTERS
• The Mermaid · Anon
• The Mermaid of Emmeloord · Jan de Hartog
• The Great Silkie of Sule Skerrie · Anon
• In the Kingdom of the Seals · Donald A. Mackenzie
• Mermen · William A. Craigie
• The Breton Mermaid · Anon
• Andromeda · Charles Kingsley
• Thor and the Midgard Serpent · Anon
• The Kraken · Alfred Tennyson
• The Great Island Fish · Sir Richard Burton
• The Man Whale · Jón Arnason
• Inside the Monster · Lucian of Samothrace

SUPERSTITIONS AND LEGENDS
• Sea Superstitions · Michael Brown
• The Albatross · R. P. Lister
• Boat Language · Jón Arnason
• The Cormorants of Udröst · P. C. Asbjörnsen
• The Fisherman and the Draug · Jonas Lie
• Finn Blood · Jonas Lie
• The Lost Fish Hook · Anon
• The Drowned Bells of the Abbey · Sorche Nic Leodhas
• Huldu-folk, Nisses and Sea-sprites · William A. Craigie
• Blue Men of the Minch · Donald A. Mackenzie
• Mother Carey (as told me by the Bo’sun) · John Masefield
• The Flying Dutchman · Auguste Jal
• Why the Sea is Salt · P. C. Asbjörnsen & J. I. Moe
• The Sea King’s Gift · Andrew Lang
• The Earl’s Son of the Sea · B. Hunt
• The Old Man of the Sea · Anon

VOYAGES AND ADVENTURES
• The Eely-Alley-O · Traditional
• The Voyage to New Zealand · Anon.
• The Voyage of Cud · Jeremiah Curtin
• Sir Patrick Spens · Anon
• How the Argonauts were driven into the Unknown Sea · Charles Kingsley
• The Golden Vanity · Anon.
• The White Ship · Charles Dickens
• The Sailor and the Pearl Merchant · Reuben Levy
• An Uneventful Voyage · Hilaire Belloc

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