Tells how the folklore and myths of the Celts, Romans, Saxons, Angles, Jutes, Danes, and Normans were woven into the poetry, ballads and dramas which formed the basis of English literature. Touches on the Arthurian legends, Beowulf, Robin Hood, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, morality plays such as Everyman, as well as the writings of the Venerable Bede, Caedmon, Chaucer, and Mallory.