Short Stories Before 1600

Sources

• English
  • The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
  • Modern Collections
• French
  • The Heptaméron (Marguerite de Navarre)
  • The Breton Lais (Marie de France)
  • The Romance of Reynard
  • Fabliaux
  • Modern Collections
• German
  • Nibelungenlied
  • Modern Collections
• Irish
  • The Mythological Cycle
  • The Ulster Cycle
  • The Fenian Cycle
  • The Historical Cycle
• Italian
  • The Hundred Old Tales (Anonymous)
  • The Decameron (Giovanni Bocaccio)
  • Three Hundred Tales (Franco Sacchetti)
  • The Big Sheep (Ser Giovanni Fiorentino)
  • Tales (Giovanni Sercambi)
  • The Little Storybook (Masuccio da Salerno)
  • The Entertaining Nights (Giovan Francesco Straparola da Caravaggio)
  • Modern Collections
• Scandinavian
  • Egil's Saga
• Welsh
  • The Mabinogion (Anonymous)
• Bibliography

Other Online References

• Period Sources for Story Telling
• Online Medieval and Classical Library
• Tahira's SCA Storytelling Page!