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This book assembles five novellas written in the 1940s and 1950s into one volume that tells the tale of Harold Shay, an Ohio psychologist who somehow turns symbolic logic into a means to travel into magical lands of myth and legend. Along the way, he picks up a bride who happily joins him in Ohio.

He and his companions visits with the Norse gods in Asgard and helps them win a battle, winds up helping both Charlemagne's great warrior, Roland, and the Moors he battles, visits the world of knights and ladies from Edmund Spencer's Faerie Queen, gives us a little background in Finnish folklore and winds up trying to keep Ireland's hero Cuchulainn alive. Not bad for a psychologist who learned a little fencing and a little magic appropriate for each realm.

Yes, it is silly at times, and the juxtaposition of 1940s slang with olde English is sometimes a bit tough to take (especially when it is sometimes easier for my modern brain to sort out the archaic English than the slang), but it is light and fun and nostalgic and just what I needed at this time.