An integral part of the "Charlemagne the Dark" #ttrpg setting are his Paladins - after all, every Dark Lord needs his Nazgûl. Since I am not particularly inclined towards wading through the medieval romances themselves, I thus needed some good summaries of their exploits. I don't know of Thomas Bulfinch measures up to modern scholarship on the subject, but his work is freely available and accessible to laypeople. Thus, he will do for starters.
Charnock replied to Jürgen Hubert's status
@juergen_hubert I can't really speak to the scholarship but Bullfinch's stuff was basically required reading in the 1970s if you were into myths and historical legends. I'm still very fond of them, but that might be a primacy effect.
@juergen_hubert As a general truism amongst folklorists, academics of myth, magicians of literature and the like (and dilettantes like myself) there is always "that book you read when you were seven that just gripped you" and as a seasoned adult you know it's total potboiler version of the myths but... it still just gets you when you see it on the shelf. Like the book that started it all.
Mine is probably Bernard Brett's Monsters from 1976
