Mythology of the British Isles
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Mythology of the British Isles
Methuen London, 1990
- : hbk
- : pbk
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Bibliography: p. [294]-297
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
- Volume
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: hbk ISBN 9780413629906
Description
This book is planned on the pattern of Robert Graves's "Greek Myths" and "Hebrew Myths". Each section deals with its topic first as presented in legend or story-telling or speculation. Then a commentary discusses the sources, the facts, the underlying ideas, the rehandling in subsequent writing. The time-span of the survey extends from prehistory to the 9th century AD. Geoffrey Ashe has also written "King Arthur's Avalon - The Story of Glastonbury", "Avalonian Quest" and "The Ancient Wisdom".
Table of Contents
- The peoples and their origins
- excursus
- mysteries of early Britain
- dynasties
- magic and secret lore
- the Roman era
- transition
- Arthurian Britain
- the birth of Scotland
- the English inheritance.
- Volume
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: pbk ISBN 9780413665409
Description
Retells the legendary history of Britain by recounting stories and legends from the dark centuries of British prehistory to the 9th century AD - tales of giants and fairies, druids and saints, King Lear, King Arthur and Old King Cole, all interrelated and presented with fresh significance.
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