Legends of the Celts.

By Frank Delaney

Printed: 1989

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton. London

Dimensions 18 × 26 × 2 cm
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Language: English

Size (cminches): 18 x 26 x 2

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In the original dustsheet. Black cloth binding with gilt title on the spine.

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To understand our past better, this is a book that deserves to be read

The author recounts his favourite Celtic legends, drawing on the oral tradition of storytelling of the last thousand years. He demonstrates the universality of our stories, and the many motifs that we have in common with ancient mythology. The Celtic peoples fed on a rich mixture of legend and myth which, in many versions and derivations, were told at the firesides of Europe since before literacy. The Celts’ ancestors had come from the foothills of the Himalayas, through the Middle East into Europe, and consequently many of the mythologies of the world connect with Celtic motifs. The most powerfully intact of the Celtic myths and legends are to be found in the Irish, Welsh, and Breton tradition. Frank Delaney has been reading the Celtic legends since childhood and in this volume draws together their main strands, in a retelling of many of the most important mythologies. This book brings up-to-date the story-telling powers of the Celts.

Review: Entertaining stories from our past. Not bedtime stories but just goes to show that we have stories and legends just as epic as the Greeks!

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