CONTENTS

1. OF THE HALL OF SULNEY AND HOW SIR YWAIN LEFT IT.
2. HOW SIR YWAIN SAW HIS OWN FACE THE FIRST TIME.
3. HOW IT FORTUNED TO YWAIN TO FIND A STAFF IN THE PLACE OF HIS SWORD.
4. HOW YWAIN CAME TO AN HERMITAGE IN A WOOD.
5. OF THE HERMIT AND OF HIS DEALING WITH YWAIN.
6. YET MORE OF THE HERMIT, AND OF A WORD THAT WAS IN YWAIN'S EARS.
7. HOW YWAIN LOOKED INTO THE WATER OF A WELL, AND OF THAT WHICH HE SAW THEREIN.
8. HOW THE HERMIT SET YWAIN ON HIS WAY AND OF TWO SECRETS THAT HE TOLD HIM.
9. OF YWAIN'S JOURNEY BY NIGHT, AND HOW HE WAS BROUGHT BY A LADY TO THE PLACE OF HIS VISION, AND SO LEFT HER.
10. OF THE LADY AITHNE, AND OF THE GIFTS THAT SHE HAD FROM HER BIRTH.
11. HOW THE LADY AILINN DEPARTED OUT OF THIS LIFE AND OF THE COUNSEL THAT SHE GAVE TO HER DAUGHTER AITHNE.
12. OF THE WARRING OF TWO COMPANIES, AND HOW YWAIN DID BATTLE FOR THE ONE OF THEM AGAINST THE OTHER.
13. HOW YWAIN WAS BROUGHT INTO THE CITY OF PALADORE.
14. HOW YWAIN SAT AT FEAST IN PALADORE WITH THE COMPANY OF THE TOWER AND THE COMPANY OF THE EAGLE.
15. OF THE GIFTS THAT WERE GIVEN TO YWAIN AND OF A DREAM THAT HE DREAMED.
16. HOW YWAIN FOUND HIS LADY AGAIN, AND HOW SHE WENT FROM HIM THE SECOND TIME.
17. OF ALADORE AND OF THE SANDS CALLED THE SHEPHERDINE SANDS.
18. OF PALADORE AND OF THE PRINCES THEREOF.
19. HOW YWAIN SPOKE WITH THE PRINCE OF PALADORE AND HOW HE TOOK UPON HIM THREE ADVENTURES.
20. OF THE ADVENTURE OF THE CHESS, AND BY WHAT MEANS YWAIN BROUGHT HIS MEN INTO OBEDIENCE.
21. OF THE ADVENTURE OF THE CASTLE OF MAIDENS AND HOW YWAIN WAS COUNSELLED TO ESCAPE THEREFROM.
22. OF THE ADVENTURE OF THE HOWLING BEAST.
23. HOW YWAIN EMPRISED TO GO TO THE CITY OF THE SAINTS AND SO INTO THE DELECTABLE ISLE.
24. HOW YWAIN SAW THE CITY OF THE SAINTS THE FIRST TIME AND HOW HE HEARD THE BELLS THEREOF.
25. OF THE MANNER OF THE CITY AND HOW YWAIN FELL ADROWSING THEREIN.
26. HOW YWAIN FOUND HIS LADY IN A GARDEN.
27. HOW YWAIN WAS BIDDEN TO AN ABBEY AND SO TO BE ENTRAPPED BY TREASON.
28. HOW THE MOON CHANGED, AND HOW YWAIN BROKE FORTH FROM THE CITY OF THE SAINTS.
29. HOW YWAIN CAME INTO THE LOST LANDS OF THE SOUTH, AND OF THREE SIGNS WHEREBY THAT COUNTRY MIGHT BE KNOWN.
30. HOW YWAIN HAD FELLOWSHIP WITH THE FAUNS.
31. HOW YWAIN MET WITH A SHEPHERDESS AND HEARD A MUSIC, AND HOW HE HAD SIGHT OF ALADORE THE FIRST TIME.
32. HOW YWAIN LIVED AS IT HAD BEEN IN THE GOLDEN AGE AND HOW HE WAS STILL UNSATISFIED.
33. OF THE MADNESS OF THE FAUNS, AND HOW YWAIN FORSOOK THEM SUDDENLY, AND HIS LADY WITH HIM.
34. HOW YWAIN AND AITHNE WENT FLYING BETWEEN SUN AND MOON.
35. OF THE CITY OF DAEDALA, AND HOW AN OLD DAME THEREIN DESPAIRED OF IT.
36. OF A PROMISE THAT WAS MADE TO YWAIN, AND HOW HE TOOK WINGS TO SEEK FOR ALADORE.
37. HOW YWAIN CAME THE SECOND TIME TO THE HERMIT, AND HOW HE TOOK COUNSEL OF HIM.
38. HOW YWAIN RETURNED AGAIN TO PALADORE FOR TO DWELL THERE, AND HOW HE SPOKE TO APPEASE A STRIFE THAT WAS BETWEEN THE PEOPLE.
39. HOW YWAIN BEHELD A GAME OF CHILDREN AND HEARD THEIR SINGING.
40. HOW YWAIN CAME TO ALADORE.
41. HOW YWAIN ENTERED INTO THE RHYMER'S HERITAGE, AND HOW HE FOUND HIS LADY THEREIN.
42. HOW YWAIN AND AITHNE WERE GIVEN EACH TO OTHER, AND HOW THEY WERE WEDDED BY THE FREEDOM OF ALADORE.
43. HOW AITHNE SHOWED YWAIN OF THE ENCHANTMENTS OF THE RHYMER, AND OF THEM WHICH DO THEREAFTER.
44. HOW YWAIN BEHELD HIS LADY SLEEPING, AND HOW HE DESIRED TO SEE THE CASTLE OF KERIOC.
45. HOW YWAIN FOUND AGAIN HIM WHICH WAS FORGOTTEN IN ALADORE, AND HOW HE HEARD A RING OF BELLS AT MIDNIGHT.
46. HOW YWAIN WAS COUNSELLED OF THE PRINCE OF PALADORE.
47. HOW YWAIN AND AITHNE HAD SIGHT OF HUBERT, AND RETURNED TOGETHER INTO PALADORE.
48. HOW YWAIN WAS AWEARIED OF PALADORE, AND HOW HE WAS MISHANDLED BY THE GREAT ONES OF THE CITY.
49. HOW YWAIN WAS EXCOMMUNICATE AFTER THE CUSTOM OF PALADORE.
50. HOW YWAIN AND AITHNE CAME TO ALADORE THE LAST TIME, AS IN THIS TRANSITORY LIFE.
51. OF TWO CITIES THAT WERE BUILDED DIVERSELY, AND HOW YWAIN AND AITHNE HEARD A HORN BLOWN OVERSEA FOR BATTLE.
52. OF A SHIP THAT WAS FULL OF LADIES AND LOVELY KNIGHTS, AND HOW YWAIN AND AITHNE DEPARTED WITH THEM OVER SEA.
53. HOW YWAIN AND AITHNE CAME TO PALADORE THE LAST TIME, AND HOW THE SNOW FELL ALL NIGHT LONG.
54. HOW THE HORN WAS GIVEN INTO YWAIN'S HAND, AND HOW HE SOUNDED THEREON A MORT ROYAL.
55. HOW THE EAGLES FARED IN FIGHTING, AND HOW SIR RAINALD WOULD HAVE DEALT WITH YWAIN.
56. HOW YWAIN BEHELD A DEAD MAN LAID ON BIER.
57. OF A BATTLE BY FIRE AND HOW YWAIN AND AITHNE WERE NO MORE SEEN IN PALADORE.
58. OF A TOMB THAT WAS FOUND IN PALADORE, AND OF DIVERS SAYINGS THAT WERE HEARD CONCERNING IT.

ILLUSTRATIONS

1. How Sir Ywain was led away of a Child
2. It was the hour of sparrow-chirp, which comes a little before the rising of the sun
3. How Ywain looked into the Water of a Well
4. How the Lady Ailinn saw Two Women of the Sidhe
5. He saw under the moon that lady sitting
6. He came to the mirror and stood still to look into it
7. And as he heard it Ywain forgot all the ills that he had suffered in all his life, and he thought on such a place as might be the land of his desire
8. How Ywain found his Lady in a Garden
9. One child held a squirrel between his hands
10. There was yet another child fast by, which vexed the piper with a barley straw
11. Upon the rocks was the young faun sitting, and playing on his pipes
12. How Ywain beheld a Game of Children
13. There before the doorway stood Aithne in the morning gold
14. And as she sang she weaved a witch-knot upon the air with both her hands
15. A Tomb that was found in Paladore