Antar is one of the greatest and most popular heroes of Arabia. He lived in the days before the coming of Mohammed and Islam. Antar was a great warrior and none could equal him in battle. But he was also a poet, and the songs he sang may still be read. This is the story of his boyhood and youth.

Antar lived and wrote in the sixth century A.D., but his writings and the stories that grew up about him were not collected until two hundred years later. Then al-Asma'll, a court poet, filled forty five volumes with the story, interspersed with other legends. Some of this material was translated into English in 1819 by an Englishman named Terrick Hamilton. There are also two French translations of the work.

From Hero Tales From Many Lands