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10 best books like Pagan Celtic Britain (Anne Ross): Myths and Symbols in Pagan Europe: Early Scandinavian and Celtic Religions, The Druids, The Pagan Religions of the Ancient British Isles: Their Nature and Legacy, The Apple Branch: A Path to Celtic Ritual, The Celtic Heroic Age, Celtic Heritage: Ancient Tradition in Ireland and Wales, Dictionary of Celtic Myth and Legend, Dictionary of Celtic Mythology, The Ancient Celts, Pagan Celtic Ireland: The Enigma of the Irish Iron Age

Myths and Symbols in Pagan Europe: Early Scandinavian and Celtic Religions
AuthorHilda Roderick Ellis Davidson
ISBN0815624417
Most people know of Valhalla, the World-Tree and the gods of Norse mythology, or the strange hunts and voyages of the ancient Irish tales. Yet, few people realize the significance of the similarities and contrasts between the religions of the pre-Christian people of north-western Europe. The Celts...
The Druids
AuthorPeter Berresford Ellis
ISBN0802841589
In this compelling and highly readable study of the Druids, respected Celtic scholar Peter Berresford Ellis sifts through the historical evidence, the legend and lore, and gives the first authentic, reliable account of who the mysterious Druids were and what role they played in Celtic society. Including...
The Pagan Religions of the Ancient British Isles: Their Nature and Legacy
AuthorRonald Hutton
ISBN0631189467
Wish I'd read this years ago. It presents itself as a summary of the evidence of ancient British religion for the general reader, which accounts for the first half of each chronological chapter, and which H. does extremely well (the answer being, in each case, that there isn't much). The fun starts, though,...
The Apple Branch: A Path to Celtic Ritual
AuthorAlexei Kondratiev
ISBN0806525029
Certain cultures in different parts of the world have maintained a respectful and balanced relationship with their natural environment, and some people today, especially those in industrial/capitalistic societies, are turning to them to learn how to rediscover these ancient and sacred attitudes...
The Celtic Heroic Age
AuthorJohn T. Koch
ISBN1891271091
A new fourth edition of an invaluable collection of literary sources, all in translation, for Celtic Europe and early Ireland and Wales. The selections are divided into three sections: the first is classical authors on the ancient celts - a huge selection including both the well known Herodotos, Plato,...
Celtic Heritage: Ancient Tradition in Ireland and Wales
AuthorAlwyn Rees
ISBN0500270392
In this widely acclaimed study, Alwyn and Brinley Rees reinterpret Celtic tradition in the light of advances made in the comparative study of religion, mythology and anthropology. Part One considers the distinguishing features of the various Cycle of tales and the personages who figure most prominently...
Dictionary of Celtic Myth and Legend
AuthorMiranda Aldhouse-Green
ISBN0500279756
Warlike, exuberant and superstitious, the ancient Celts saw divinities in every facet of life and nature, venerating deities of the sun, thunder, water, war, healing, hunting, fertility and death. They possessed a complicated array of concepts and rituals, a powerful priesthood - the Druids - and...
Dictionary of Celtic Mythology
AuthorJames MacKillop
ISBN0192801201
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...
The Ancient Celts
AuthorBarry W. Cunliffe
ISBN0140254226
The archetypal `barbarians from the north', the Celts were feared for their ferocity in battle and admired as skilled craftsmen. For two and half thousand years the Celts have continued to fascinate all who have come into contact with them. THE ANCIENT CELTS presents an absorbing account of the tribes...
Pagan Celtic Ireland: The Enigma of the Irish Iron Age
AuthorBarry Raftery
ISBN0500279837
Our established impressions of early Celtic Ireland have come down to us through the great Irish sagas: epic tales of heroic struggles between kings and warriors, of outlandish gods and wise Druids. But how do these images compare with the evidence revealed by the excavator's trowel? Recent archaeological...
Celtic Gods and Heroes
AuthorMarie-Louise Sjoestedt
ISBN0486414418
There's a surprising amount of information packed into this tiny book about Celtic culture and myth. It's dense reading, and I read each chapter through multiple times and took notes in order to really absorb the information. What I appreciated most about this work is how Sjoestedt highlights the ways...
The Celts
AuthorNora Kershaw Chadwick
ISBN0140250743
A history of Celtic culture in Britain from its origins to its transformation under the Romans and Saxons.

The Celts possessed a self-contained and remarkable culture whose influence is by no means restricted to those parts of Britain traditionally regarded as 'Celtic'. A proud and independent...
Celtic Mythology
AuthorProinsias Mac Cana
ISBN0600006476
Okay, I am slightly disappointed in this book. I was hoping for a little bit more of the legends, epics and Sagas themselves. Not a scholarly, Joseph Campbellesqe history/comparative mythology type book.

Granted, finding one of those written in Modern English is quite difficult and about...
In Search of the Indo-Europeans: Language, Archaeology and Myth
AuthorJ.P. Mallory
ISBN0500276161
This is the third time that I read this book since I bought it last year. Every time I read it I discover something new. Its an amazing book for anyone interested in the Indo-Europeans.

The book is written from the point of view of an archeologist who has knowledge of historical linguistic methods....
The Lost Gods of England
AuthorBrian Branston
ISBN0195197968
This 1976 book is, as far as my experience stretches, the daddy of them all. It's been cited as a source in probably every other thing I've read on Anglo-Saxon (and by association/implication Norse) mythology, but you don't see it in bookshops any more.

Actually, having read a reasonable amount...
A History of Pagan Europe
AuthorPrudence J. Jones
ISBN0415373336
With this second edition bringing the books completely up to date with analysis of recent work in the area, A History of Pagan Europe is the first comprehensive study of its kind, and establishes Paganism as a persistent force in European history with a profound influence on modern thinking.

From...
The Celts: Uncovering the Mythic and Historic Origins of Western Culture
AuthorJean Markale
ISBN0892814136
While historians have tended to accord the Celts a place of minor significance in comparison to the Romans, The Celts firmly aligns the Celtic peoples as the primary European precedent to the Greco-Roman hegemony, restoring this culture to its true importance in the development of European civilization....
The World of the Celts
AuthorSimon James
ISBN0500279985
Warlike, flamboyant, courageous—the ancient Celts had a fearsome reputation. For five hundred years they dominated the lands north of the Alps, before being largely absorbed into the Roman Empire. But Celtic culture survived and achieved a glorious flowering in the post-Roman, early Christian...
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