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A Brief Guide to Celtic Myths and Legends - Couverture souple

Whittock, Martyn

 
9781780338927: A Brief Guide to Celtic Myths and Legends
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1780338929 ISBN 13 : 9781780338927
Editeur : Robinson, 2013

Synopsis

A wide-ranging and enthralling introduction to Celtic mythology.

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À propos de l'auteur

MARTYN WHITTOCK taught history at secondary level for thirty-five years. He has acted as an historical consultant to the National Trust, the BBC and English Heritage and is the author or co-author of forty-eight books, including A Brief History of Life in the Middle Ages, Norse Myths and Legends and The Secret History of Soviet Russia's Police State.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

An insightful and accessible guide that breathes fresh life into the enduringly popular Celtic myths and legends

In this wide-ranging and very readable introduction to the myths and legends of the Celts - a world of giants, tumultuous storms, magic cauldrons, fierce warriors and severed heads that talk - Whittock draws extensively on up-to-date archaeological evidence, Greek and Roman inscriptions and medieval Irish and Welsh manuscripts. He also examines the later Breton literature - and, where written evidence is scarce, enduring oral traditions.

His interpretation is both thrilling and authentic of such characters as the Irish gods before gods, the Fomorians; the children of Lír, the sea deity; the hunter-warrior Finn mac Cumhaill, whose exploits are chronicled in the Fenian Cycle; Cú Chulainn, the Hound of Ulster; the Welsh heroes of the Mabinogion; and the mythical, Welsh Arthur, who predates the medieval legends. In addition to examining the myths of the Irish and the Welsh, this account also explores the related mythologies of Scotland, Cornwall, the Isle of Man and Brittany.

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Éditeur
Robinson
Date d'édition
2013
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1780338929
ISBN 13 
9781780338927
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
352
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