The Mythology of the British Islands: An Introduction to Celtic Myth, Legend, Poetry, and RomanceSquire, Charles
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The Mythology of the British Islands: An Introduction to Celtic Myth, Legend, Poetry, and Romance
Squire, Charles
Celts -- Folklore; Mythology, Celtic
Alfred Nutt.—THE VOYAGE OF BRAN, SON OF FEBAL. An Irish Historic
Legend of the eighth century. Edited by Kuno Meyer. With essays
upon the Happy Otherworld in Irish Myth and upon the Celtic
Doctrine of Rebirth. Vol. I—The Happy Otherworld. Vol. II—The
Celtic Doctrine of Rebirth. Grimm Library, Vols. IV and VI.
London, 1895-1897.
_Contains, among other notable contributions to the study of
Celtic mythology, an enquiry into the nature of the Tuatha Dé
Danann, a subject briefly treated in the same author’s_
THE FAIRY MYTHOLOGY OF SHAKESPEARE. No. 6 of “Popular Studies in
Mythology, Romance, and Folklore”. London, 1900.
Patrick Weston Joyce.—OLD CELTIC ROMANCES. Translated from the
Gaelic. London, 1894.
_A retelling in popular modern style of some of the more
important mythological and Fenian stories._
Lady Gregory.—GODS AND FIGHTING MEN. The story of the Tuatha Dé
Danann and of the Fianna of Erin. Arranged and put into English
by Lady Gregory. With a Preface by W. B. Yeats. London, 1904.
_Covers much the same ground as Mr. Joyce’s book, but in more
literary manner._
Alfred Nutt.—OSSIAN AND THE OSSIANIC LITERATURE. No. 3 of “Popular
Studies in Mythology, Romance, and Folklore”. London, 1899.
_A short survey of the literature connected with the Fenians._
John Gregorson Campbell, Minister of Tiree.—THE FIANS. Stories,
poems, and traditions of Fionn and his Warrior Band,
collected entirely from oral sources. With introduction and
bibliographical notes by Alfred Nutt. Vol. IV of “Waifs and
Strays of Celtic Tradition”. London, 1891.
_An account of the Fenians from the Scottish-Gaelic side._
Alfred Nutt.—CUCHULAINN THE IRISH ACHILLES. No. 8 of “Popular
Studies in Mythology, Romance, and Folklore”. London, 1900.
_A brief but excellent introduction to the Cuchulainn cycle._
Lady Gregory.—CUCHULAIN OF MUIRTHEMNE. The story of the Men of the
Red Branch of Ulster. Arranged and put into English by Lady
Gregory. With a Preface by W. B. Yeats. London, 1902.
_A retelling in poetic prose of the tales connected with
Cuchulainn._
Eleanor Hull.—THE CUCHULLIN SAGA IN IRISH LITERATURE. Being a
collection of stories relating to the Hero Cuchullin, translated
from the Irish by various scholars. Compiled and edited with
introduction and notes by Eleanor Hull. With Map of Ancient
Ireland. Grimm Library, Vol. VIII. London, 1898.
_A series of Cuchulainn stories from the ancient Irish
manuscripts. More literal than Lady Gregory’s adaptation._
H. d’Arbois de Jubainville.—L’ÉPOPÉE CELTIQUE EN IRLANDE. Vol. V of
the “Cours de Littérature celtique”. Paris, 1892.
_A collection, translated into French, of some of the principal
stories of the Cuchulainn cycle, with various appendices upon
Gaelic mythological subjects._
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