The Ballad of the White Horse

by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton · language: en

THE BALLAD OF THE WHITE HORSE By G.K. Chesterton Prefatory Note: This ballad needs no historical notes, for the simple reason that it does not profess to be historical.

All of it that is not frankly fictitious, as in any prose romance about the past, is meant to emphasize tradition rather than history.

King Alfred is not a legend in the sense that King Arthur may be a legend; that is, in the sense that he may possibly be a lie.

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