Myths & Legends of the British Isles
10 best books like Myths & Legends of the British Isles (Richard Barber): Heroes of the Dawn: Celtic Myth, Irish Myths and Legends, Legends of Valor, Scandinavian Folk & Fairy Tales: Tales From Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland & Iceland, Folk-Tales of the British Isles, More Celtic Fairy Tales, New Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology, Classical Mythology: A Very Short Introduction, Dictionary of Celtic Mythology, Women in Celtic Myth: Tales of Extraordinary Women from the Ancient Celtic Tradition
| Author | Fergus Fleming |
| ISBN | 0705421716 |
Generation after generation has passed down the ancient legend of a boy-king named Arthur who pulled a sword from stone, loved the beautiful Guinevere, and presided over the Round Table. And we still celebrate the ancient Celtic holy day of Samhain, only now we call it Halloween. The earth itself has...
| Author | Lady Augusta Gregory |
| ISBN | 0762402814 |
I'll say this for this little morsel--it does make me want to track down the book from which it was clipped, Gods and Fighting Men by Lady Gregory.
In this incarnation, though, I see only a teasing appetizer. The four stories of the stalwart Fianna are presented with zero context, so it felt a little...
| Author | Brendan Lehane |
| ISBN | 0809452219 |
This is almost like reading two different books. I was convinced I was going to give this book a 2-star rating based on the first half. It starts with a collection of legends about an Irish hero named Cuchulain. Many of the legends have tons of internal references, and the text quite often tells you to (see...
| Author | Anonymous |
| ISBN | 0517436205 |
I hate to say that these were really disappointing :(
(There was literally only ONE story about vikings in this whole book!)
Also worth noting, is that these tales are heavily influenced by early christian views of the Scandinavian countries, rather than the pantheon of norse gods and goddesses....
| Author | Kevin Crossley-Holland |
| ISBN | 0394755537 |
A miscellaneous collection. Tales of fairies, fairy tales, ghost stories, tales of heroes, legends, jocular tales. . . .
If you are looking for one of those types, you may have to read through them all, because they are organized by themes that sometimes cross them. Some are literary -- we have...
| Author | Joseph Jacobs |
| ISBN | 1605061999 |
More Celtic Fairy Tales is part of a series written by the Australian born folklorist Joseph Jacobs. In this book feature over two dozen stories taken from popular oral tradition and united with John D. Batten's black and white drawings, full of movement and energy. Many of the earliest children's books,...
| Author | Félix Guirand |
| ISBN | 0517004046 |
Here, in all their wonder and splendor, are the Mythologies of Mankind.. from pre-biblical Egypt and pre-Homeric Greece to the farthest researches of Africa, the Orient, the Pacific and the Americas.. all gathered into one mammoth volume of unprecedented scope and beauty, and illustrated with an...
| Author | Helen Morales |
| ISBN | 0192804766 |
From Zeus and Europa, to Diana, Pan, and Prometheus, the myths of ancient Greece and Rome seem to exert a timeless power over us. But what do those myths represent, and why are they so enduringly fascinating? Why do they seem to be such a potent way of talking about our selves, our origins, and our desires?...
| Author | James MacKillop |
| ISBN | 0192801201 |
This new work offers an exhaustive survey of one of the world's most fertile and exciting mythological traditions. It covers the persons, themes, concepts, places, and creatures of Celtic mythology, in all its ancient and modern traditions, in 4000 entries ranging from brief definitions to extended...
| Author | Moyra Caldecott |
| ISBN | 0892813571 |
In Celtic myth, the mixture of wise spiritual teaching and dramatic imagery creates new, potent, and disturbing visions. This selection of eleven storiessome more than 3,000 years old focuses on the women of ancient British mythology, from the formidable women warriors who trained heros to fight...
| Author | Reader's Digest Association |
| ISBN | 0895770458 |
The Reader's Digest Association, Inc. is a global media and direct marketing company based in Chappaqua, New York, best known for its flagship publication founded in 1922, Reader's Digest. The company's headquarters are in New York City, where it moved from Pleasantville, New York.
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National Geographic Essential Visual History of World Mythology
| Author | National Geographic Society |
From ancient Egyptian deities to the Vedic gods of India, from Maya, Inca, and Aztec legends to the Dreamtime of the Aborigines. National Geographic Essential Visual History of World Mythology encompasses myths and creation stories from around the globe that have shaped society for millennia. Accessible,...
Folklore of the Scottish Highlands
| Author | Anne Ross |
| ISBN | 0752419048 |
The folklore of the Scottish Highlands is unique and very much alive. Anne Ross is a Gaelic-speaking scholar and archaeologist who has lived and worked in crofting communities, which has enabled her to collect information firsthand and assess the veracity of material already published. In this substantially...
| Author | Jessie Laidlay Weston |
| ISBN | 0486296806 |
Acknowledged by T. S. Eliot as one of the chief sources for his great poem "The Waste Land," Jessie L. Weston's From Ritual to Romance remains a landmark of anthropological and mythological scholarship. In this book she explores the origins of the Grail legend, arguing that it dates back to a primitive...
The Names Upon the Harp: Irish Myth and Legend
| Author | Marie Heaney |
| ISBN | 0590680528 |
I picked up this book for P.J. Lynch's beautiful illustrations, but I enjoyed these Irish tales as well. Most of them were familiar to me. "Deirdre of the Sorrows" is still my all-time favorite Irish folktale. I had fun trying to guess the pronunciations of the Irish names. Thankfully, there was a pronunciation...
Myths and Folk Tales of Ireland
| Author | Jeremiah Curtin |
| ISBN | 0486224309 |
Fearsome giants, magic spells, Druidic rods of enchantment; gallant princes and beautiful princesses, brave kings and wicked queens; cloaks of invisibility, swords of light and swords of darkness, horses that go faster than the wind, animals that speak and have strange powers...these are elements...
| Author | Frank Delaney |
| ISBN | 0806983515 |
Delaney's collection of Welsh and Irish legends is a pretty quick, easy read and a good intro into the colorful, bizarre world of Celtic legends. He provides some nice historical prefaces that never become too academic or pedantic, and in the longer stories- the Cattle Raid of Cooley and Tristan and...
The Age of Chivalry (Bulfinch's Medieval Mythology)
| Author | Thomas Bulfinch |
| ISBN | 0486436535 |
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Томас Булфинч - "Митове и легенди от рицарските времена", изд. "Рива", 2018 г., прев. Розалина Евдокимова
Когато осъзнаеш, че времето ти...
Egyptian Myth: A Very Short Introduction
| Author | Geraldine Pinch |
| ISBN | 0192803468 |
Egyptian myths articulated the core values of one of the longest lasting civilizations in history, and myths of deities such as Isis and Osiris influenced contemporary cultures and became part of the Western cultural heritage. Egyptian Mythology: A Very Short Introduction explains the cultural...
Edited, introduced and partially translated by Magnus Magnusson. Illustrations by Simon Noyes. Endpaper maps by Reg Piggott.
Contains "Auðun's Tale", "Grænlendinga Saga", "Eirík's Saga", "The Tale of Thorstein Stangarhögg (Staff-Struck)", "Egil's Saga", "Hrafnkel's Saga",...
The World's Best Fairy Tales
| Author | Belle Becker Sideman |
| ISBN | 0864381174 |
This is the collection I had as a child and picked it up on eBay to read to my girls. My two older kids (8 and 10) loved it, though my five-year-old had trouble following the stories. The language is pretty dense and there is usually only one picture for each story (each one is about 7-20 pages). The illustrations...
| Author | Peter Ackroyd |
| ISBN | 1846141931 |
I wanted so much to enjoy this book. I hesitate to say 'love this book', because I'm not an Ackroyd fan, but the subject matter here - I am a die-hard Arthur groupie - should have made this an easy win.
However. I found Ackroyd's retelling flatfooted, emotionless, and barren. Stripped back prose...
Lost Lands, Forgotten Realms: Sunken Continents, Vanished Cities, and the Kingdoms That History Misplaced
| Author | Bob Curran |
| ISBN | 1564149587 |
There are places that turn up in literature or in film--mystical and legendary places whose names may be familiar but about which we know little. We nod knowingly at the reference, but are often left wondering about places such as Atlantis, the lost land overwhelmed by the sea, or El Dorado, the fabulous...
Hubbub: Filth, Noise, and Stench in England, 1600-1770
| Author | Emily Cockayne |
| ISBN | 0300112149 |
Modern city-dwellers suffer their share of unpleasant experiences—traffic jams, noisy neighbors, pollution, food scares—but urban nuisances of the past existed on a different scale entirely, this book explains in vivid detail. Focusing on offenses to the eyes, ears, noses, taste buds, and...
