OLD SWEDISH LEGENDARY contains legends about Christ, the Virgin Mary, and the saints and was presumably composed by a Dominican friar at the end of the thineenth or the beginning of the founeenth century. The Legendary is arranged in chronological order, and a curious anecdote about King Arthur is injected between the legends of St. Ursula (ca. 452) and St. Remigius (ca. 500). After an introductory section that relates how Arthur died, an exemplum is told about a knight named Walwanius (Gawain), who appears one Midsummer's Eve to a priest in his sleep and invites him to attend an Arthurian feast. The feasting ends, however, with a battle in which all are slain. The priest is told that this is a daily ritual to which King Arthur must submit until the Day ofjudgment because in life his deeds had been performed for worldly gain. The priest is instructed to have chalices made from King Arthur's golden goblets. When he awakes, he finds the vessels and does as Walwanius has bidden him. The tale of warriors who are slain each day, rise up to feast, and then battle once more is presumably modeled after the Norse myth of the slain warriors who are taken to Valhalla, where they engage in battle each day but feast at night. [MEKI

O'MEARA, WALTER (ANDREW) (1897-1), advenising copywriter, journalist, and author of the historical novel The Duke of Way (1966), in which events surrounding Arthur's victory at Badon are chronicled by a young Romano-British girl. Since her villa is used as Arthur's campaign headquarters, she is well placed to observe his domestic, as well as his military and political, pmblems.