Gods, heroes, & kings : the battle for mythic Britain
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書誌事項
Gods, heroes, & kings : the battle for mythic Britain
Oxford University Press, 2001
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注記
Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-230) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
The authors explore the sources of Britain's variegated folkloric tradition to discover how this body of seemingly unrelated tales developed. They uncover a virtual battlefield of myths in which Pagan and Judeo-Christian beliefs fought for dominance and classical, Anglo-Saxon, Germanic, and Celtic narrative threads became tangled together. The resulting body of legends became a strange but coherent hybrid, which featured Christian heroes who exhibited distinctively Pagan behaviour. These myths continue to interest a broad range of readers - alternative spiritual groups embrace the Pagan traditions and folklore of the British Isles, while the Arthurian legends inspire countless fictions.
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