XPost: alt.folklore, alt.books, rec.arts.books   
   XPost: rec.arts.books.childrens   
   From: mpnugentAT@copperDOT.net   
      
   I am trying to locate two books and one folktale, but cannot find them no   
   matter who I ask or how I google. What are the names of these literary   
   gems? Or, who are their authors?   
      
   The first is an illustrated children's book involving an errant knight   
   on a white horse who meets, at different occasions, a bear, a griffin,   
   and either a tiger or a dragon, I think. These three creatures follow him,   
   in parade, with the intention of doing him harm, but eventually he   
   outwits them all.   
      
   There's another book in the Arthurian vein that I read in a comparative   
   lit class, written by a woman (not Zimmer-Bradley) who presented the   
   legend in detailed historical context: that Arthur's military skill was   
   notably Roman, that his troops practiced man-love, that maids following   
   Arthur's army discarded unwanted babes. As historically accurate as   
   "Robin Hood", the movie, with Patrick Bergen. Gruesome and   
   un-romanticized, yet fantastic, as any legend requires.   
      
   The third is a tale learned from the same class about a fey woman who   
   finally offers her newlywed husband the choice to see her beautiful by day   
   or by night. The husband states that the choice is hers, at which she   
   becomes beautiful always.   
      
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