Author: Patrick Weston Joyce
Publisher:
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Category : Epic literature, Irish
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Old Celtic Romances
Author: Patrick Weston Joyce
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Epic literature, Irish
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Epic literature, Irish
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Celtic Myth and Arthurian Romance
Author: Roger Sherman Loomis
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 1613732104
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 457
Book Description
King Arthur was not an Englishman, but a Celtic warrior, according to Loomis, whose research into the background of the Arthurian legend reveals findings which are both illuminating and highly controversial. The author sees the vegetarian goddess as the prototype of many damsels in Arthurian romance, and Arthur's knights as the gods of sun and storm. If Loomis's arguments are accepted, where does this leave the historic Arthur?
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 1613732104
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 457
Book Description
King Arthur was not an Englishman, but a Celtic warrior, according to Loomis, whose research into the background of the Arthurian legend reveals findings which are both illuminating and highly controversial. The author sees the vegetarian goddess as the prototype of many damsels in Arthurian romance, and Arthur's knights as the gods of sun and storm. If Loomis's arguments are accepted, where does this leave the historic Arthur?
Old Celtic Romances
Author: P. W. Joyce
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486826309
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Famous treasury of tales from Celtic mythology includes "The Three Sorrows of Storytelling," metaphorical interpretations of tragic events in Irish history involving the fate of the children of Lir, Turenn, and Usna.
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486826309
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Famous treasury of tales from Celtic mythology includes "The Three Sorrows of Storytelling," metaphorical interpretations of tragic events in Irish history involving the fate of the children of Lir, Turenn, and Usna.
Celtic Tales, Told to the Children
Author: Louey Chisholm
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Celtic Tales, Told to the Children" by Louey Chisholm. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Celtic Tales, Told to the Children" by Louey Chisholm. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Old Celtic Romances, Translated from the Gaelic by P. W. Joyce,...
Author: P. W. Joyce
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Irish Fairy Book
Author: Alfred Perceval Graves
Publisher:
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Category : Fairy tales
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fairy tales
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Old Celtic Romances
Author: P. W. Joyce
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3748117787
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Among the Celtic people of Ireland and the north-west of Scotland, story-telling has always been a favourite amusement. In the olden time, they had professional story-tellers, variously designated according to rank-ollaves, shanachies, filès, bards, etc.-whose duty it was to know by heart a number of old tales, poems, and historical pieces, and to recite them at festive gatherings, for the entertainment of the chiefs and their guests. These story-tellers were always well received at the houses of princes and chiefs, and treated with much consideration; and on occasions when they acquitted themselves well, so as to draw down the applause of the audience, they were often rewarded with costly presents. To meet the demand for this sort of entertainment, ingenious "men of learning," taking legends or historical events as themes, composed stories from time to time; of which those that struck the popular fancy were caught up and remembered, and handed down from one generation of story-tellers to another. In course of time, a body of romantic literature grew up, consisting chiefly of prose tales, which were classified, according to subject, into Battles, Voyages, Tragedies, Military Expeditions, Cattle-Raids, Courtships, Pursuits, Adventures, Visions, etc.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3748117787
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Among the Celtic people of Ireland and the north-west of Scotland, story-telling has always been a favourite amusement. In the olden time, they had professional story-tellers, variously designated according to rank-ollaves, shanachies, filès, bards, etc.-whose duty it was to know by heart a number of old tales, poems, and historical pieces, and to recite them at festive gatherings, for the entertainment of the chiefs and their guests. These story-tellers were always well received at the houses of princes and chiefs, and treated with much consideration; and on occasions when they acquitted themselves well, so as to draw down the applause of the audience, they were often rewarded with costly presents. To meet the demand for this sort of entertainment, ingenious "men of learning," taking legends or historical events as themes, composed stories from time to time; of which those that struck the popular fancy were caught up and remembered, and handed down from one generation of story-tellers to another. In course of time, a body of romantic literature grew up, consisting chiefly of prose tales, which were classified, according to subject, into Battles, Voyages, Tragedies, Military Expeditions, Cattle-Raids, Courtships, Pursuits, Adventures, Visions, etc.
Old Celtic Romances. Translated from the Gaelic by P.W. Joyce
Author: Patrick Weston JOYCE
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
A Dictionary of Medieval Romance and Romance Writers
Author: Lewis Spence
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
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Category : Authors, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
The Names Upon the Harp, Irish Myth and Legend
Author: Marie Heaney
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 9780590680523
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
A sampling of some of the most famous Irish legends.
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 9780590680523
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
A sampling of some of the most famous Irish legends.