Folk-Lore and Legends; Scandinavian
10 best books like Folk-Lore and Legends; Scandinavian (Charles John Tibbits): Gods and Fighting Men: The Story of the Tuatha De Danaan and the Fianna of Ireland, Exploring the Northern Tradition: A Guide to the Gods, Lore, Rites, and Celebrations From the Norse, German, and Anglo-Saxon Traditions, Brian Boru: Emperor of the Irish, Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks, Popular Tales from the Norse, Folk-Lore and Legends Scotland, Celtic Tales, Told to the Children, The Ice-Maiden and Other Tales, Eskimo Folk-Tales, Fairy Tales from the German Forests
| Author | Lady Augusta Gregory |
| ISBN | 0901072370 |
It's always weird to read a book that's essentially a twice-over translation. First the original author translated the myths to English, and that was over a hundred years ago... and then the Polish translator, while trying to keep the archaic and mythical sound of the original, translated it into Polish......
Exploring the Northern Tradition: A Guide to the Gods, Lore, Rites, and Celebrations From the Norse, German, and Anglo-Saxon Traditions
| Author | Galina Krasskova |
| ISBN | 1564147916 |
I got this book because 1. I am so sick of Wicca and 2. I thought it was time to investigate my Bavarian Swiss and Anglo-Saxon sides. (The Scots-Irish side can't take up all my reading time!)
It's a slim book, but I think it is good for beginners like me. She really describes the modern Heathen communities...
Brian Boru: Emperor of the Irish
| Author | Morgan Llywelyn |
| ISBN | 0812544617 |
One thousand years ago, during the Viking Age, an extraordinary young man was born in Ireland. His people, plagued by warfare, were weary not only from the Vikings' brutal raids along the coast, but also from the continuous warring among local chieftains. The Irish had become a downtrodden race.
But...
| Author | William Elliot Griffis |
William Elliot Griffis, D.D., L.H. D. (1843-1928) was an American orientalist, author and Congregational preacher. In September 1870 Griffis was invited to Japan for the purpose of organizing schools along Western lines. He prepared the New Japan Series of reading and spelling books and primers...
| Author | George Webbe Dasent |
Translated from Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Engebretsen Moe's collection. You may have heard of this particular collection; J.R.R. Tolkien cites it in "On Fairy-Stories." And you definitely know one tale: "The Three Billy-Goats Gruff."
There are a lot more here. Has some animal...
I chose to read "The Fisherman and the Merman" folk-story out of this book. Like many other folk-stories this was at times hard to understand what was going on and was required to be read more than once. This story showed the very dark side that these types of stories can posses. This story says things like,...
Title
Celtic Tales Told to the Children: The Starry-Eyed Deirdre
Author
Louey Chisholm
Illustrator
Catherine Cameron
Category
Traditional and ICDL
Copyright Date
1910
Estimate of age level of interest
Adult
Estimate...
| Author | Hans Christian Andersen |
The Ice Maiden rules the cold snowcapped mountains of Switzerland. Before Rudy was a year old, the Ice Maiden claimed his father into the icy depths of the mountains -- and now she wants Rudy too. The precocious little boy must now do everything in his power to resist the lure of the Ice Maiden . . . and escape...
THESE stories were collected in various parts of Greenland, taken down from the lips of the Eskimo story-tellers themselves, by Knud Rasmussen, the Danish explorer. No man is better qualified to tell the story of Greenland, or the stories of its people. Knud Rasmussen is himself partly of Eskimo...
[...] He saw that it was the mouth of the tunnel, and glancing up he saw the giant fir-tree under which he had been sleeping with outstretched arms above him in the light of the moon. "Well-I never! what a dunderhead I am!" he said to himself-"fancy sleeping like that, why such a thing has never happened to...
1881. In a certain sense Wales may be spoken of as the cradle of fairy legend. It is not now disputed that from the Welsh were borrowed many of the first subjects of composition in the literature of all the cultivated peoples of Europe. In the ground it covers, while this volume deals especially with Wales,...
Zen was uniquely suited to the Samurai of Japan. The high moral principles of Buddhism, when adopted and adapted by the Japanese warriors who became the Samurai, created an austere philosophy of singular beauty and depth. Its characteristic requirements of strict control over body and mind was exemplified...
A fascinating treatise on the study of modern mythology the construction of myths so soon after an event. Andrew Lang was the foremost scholar in folklore and mythology of his time. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly...
| Author | Vilborg Davíðsdóttir |
When a fleet of one hundred English ships is caught in a horrible storm off the cold coasts of fifteenth-century Iceland, twenty-five ships are lost. For Ragna, the daughter of a respected family and betrothed to Thorkell, her relationship with one of the seamen washed ashore results in pregnancy....
The Emancipation Proclamation is a moving and thought provoking document. It demonstrates a President's conviction to create change for the better good of all people in spite of the opposition of the times. During the Civil Rights movement of the 60's President Lyndon Johnson reminded us...
Beowulf and Other Old English Poems
| Author | Unknown |
| ISBN | 0553213474 |
Unique and beautiful, Beowulf brings to life a society of violence and honor, fierce warriors and bloody battles, deadly monsters and famous swords. Written by an unknown poet in about the eighth century, this masterpiece of Anglo-Saxton literature transforms legends, myth, history, and ancient...
The Babylonian Legends of the Creation
Great research
- Quote: "There was a time in which there existed nothing but darkness and an abyss of waters, wherein resided most hideous beings, which were produced on a two-fold principle. There appeared men, some of whom were furnished with two wings, others with four, and with two faces....
Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore
| Author | William Ralston Shedden Ralston |
I now see where so much from the Winternight trilogy came from! However, I have serious issues with the unfortunate formatting and layout of this book. Stories were told in weird conglomerations - oh, in another version instead it goes like THIS etc. - and there weren't good paragraphing and indentations...
Essential Asatru: Walking the Path of Norse Paganism
| Author | Diana L. Paxson |
| ISBN | 0806527080 |
A Journey to Fulfillment and RenewalIn Essential Asatru, renowned author and priestess Diana Paxson demystifies an ancient, rich, and often misunderstood religion, and offers a practical guide for its modern followers.Filled with clear, concise instructions on living Asatru every day, this...
| Author | Sabine Baring-Gould |
| ISBN | 1859580726 |
Sabine Baring-Gould’s Book of Werewolves (which was recommended to me by several people here) was originally published in 1865. Baring-Gould treats the phenomenon of the werewolf as a psychological aberration, as essentially a delusional state. He also relates it to cannibalism, and seems to...
| Author | Charles Fort |
| ISBN | 1585092789 |
Time travel, UFOs, mysterious planets, stigmata, rock-throwing poltergeists, huge footprints, bizarre rains of fish and frogs-nearly a century after Charles Fort's Book of the Damned was originally published, the strange phenomenon presented in this book remains largely unexplained by modern...
