Celtic Myth and Legend, Poetry and Romance.
Author: SQUIRE, Charles.
London: Gresham, no date. xiv, 450 pages. Illustrated. Decorated green cloth. Hardback.
A good starting point for a grounding in the mythical, legendary and poetic traditions of the Gaelic and British Celts, later reprinted in paperback form.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER
I. THE INTEREST AND IMPORTANCE OF CELTIC MYTHOLOGY
II. THE SOURCES OF OUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE CELTIC MYTHOLOGY
III. WHO WERE THE “ANCIENT BRITONS”?
IV. THE RELIGION OF THE ANCIENT BRITONS AND DRUIDISM
THE GAELIC GODS AND THEIR STORIES
V. THE GODS OF THE GAELS
VI. THE GODS ARRIVE
VII. THE RISE OF THE SUN-GOD VIII. THE GAELIC ARGONAUTS
IX. THE WAR WITH THE GIANTS
X. THE CONQUEST OF THE GODS BY MORTALS .
XI. THE GODS IN EXILE
XII. THE IRISH ILIAD
XIII. SOME GAELIC LOVE-STORIES
XIV. FINN AND THE FENIANS
XV. THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE GODS
THE BRITISH GODS AND THEIR STORIES
XVI. THE GODS OF THE BRITONS
XVII. THE ADVENTURES OF THE GODS OF HADES .
XVIII. THE WOOING OF BRANWEN AND THE BEHEADING OF BRAN
XIX. THE WAR OF ENCHANTMENTS
XX. THE VICTORIES OF LIGHT OVER DARKNESS .
XXI. THE MYTHOLOGICAL “COMING OF ARTHUR”
XXII. THE TREASURES OF BRITAIN
XXIII. THE GODS AS KING ARTHUR’S KNIGHTS
XXIV. THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE GODS
SURVIVALS OF THE CELTIC PAGANISM
XXV. SURVIVALS OF THE CELTIC PAGANISM INTO MODERN TIMES
APPENDIX
INDEX
TABLE OF PRONUNCIATION FOR THE MORE DIFFICULT WORDS
ISBN: None/Unknown
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