I dub this guy the patron saint of this blog and our collective interests

Sabine Baring-Gould. What a man!
A priest who:
-Collected one of the most impressive anthologies of English folk music
-Wrote a 16-volume 'Lives of the Saints'
AND -Has a book titled 'Curious Myths of the Middle Ages'!

What work! What a man!

addenda:

- nothing more fun than victorian 'scholarship'

- I just ordered a copy of 'Curious Myths of the Middle Ages'