Elizabeth A. Sharp (editor).--LYRA CELTICA. An Anthology of
Representative Celtic Poetry. Ancient Irish, Alban, Gaelic,
Breton, Cymric, and Modern Scottish and Irish Celtic Poetry. With
introduction and notes by William Sharp. Edinburgh, 1896.
Alfred Nutt.--CELTIC AND MEDIÆVAL ROMANCE. No. 1 of Mr.
Nutt's "Popular Studies in Mythology, Romance, and Folk-lore".
London, 1899.
A pamphlet briefly tracing the indebtedness of
mediæval European literature to pre-mediæval Celtic
sources.
HISTORICAL
H. d'Arbois de Jubainville.--LA CIVILISATION DES CELTES ET
CELLE DE L'ÉPOPÉE HOMÉRIQUE. Paris,
1899.
Vol. VI of the author's monumental "Cours de
Littérature celtique."
Patrick Weston Joyce.--A SOCIAL HISTORY OF ANCIENT IRELAND,
treating of the Government, Military System, and Law; Religion,
Learning, and Art; Trades, Industries, and Commerce; Manners,
Customs, and Domestic Life of the Ancient Irish People. 2 vols.
London, 1903.
Charles I. Elton, F.S.A.--ORIGINS OF ENGLISH HISTORY. Second
edition, revised. London, 1890.
John Rhys.--CELTIC BRITAIN. "Early Britain" Series. London,
1882.
H. d'Arbois de Jubainville.--INTRODUCTION A L'ÉTUDE DE
LA LITTÉRATURE CELTIQUE. Vol. I of the "Cours de
Littérature celtique". Paris, 1883.
Contains, among other information, the fullest and most
authentic account of the druids and druidism.
GAELIC MYTHOLOGY
H. d'Arbois de Jubainville.--LE CYCLE MYTHOLOGIQUE IRLANDAIS
ET LA MYTHOLOGIE CELTIQUE. Vol. II of the "Cours de
Littérature celtique". Paris, 1884. Translated into
English as
THE IRISH MYTHOLOGICAL CYCLE AND CELTIC MYTHOLOGY. With notes
by R. I. Best. Dublin, 1903.
An account of Irish mythical history and of some of the
greater Gaelic gods. With chapters on some of the more striking
phases of Celtic belief.
Alfred Nutt.--THE VOYAGE OF BRAN, SON OF FERAL. An Irish
Historic Legend of the eighth century. Edited by Kuno Meyer. With
essays upon the Happy Otherworld in Irish Myth and upon the
Celtic Doctrine of Rebirth. Vol. I--The Happy Otherworld. Vol.
II--The Celtic Doctrine of Rebirth. Grimm Library, Vols. IV and
VI. London, 1895-1897.
Contains, among other notable contributions to the study of
Celtic mythology, an enquiry into the nature of the Tuatha
Dé Danann, a subject briefly treated in the same
author's
THE FAIRY MYTHOLOGY OF SHAKESPEARE. No. 6 of "Popular Studies
in Mythology, Romance, and Folklore". London, 1900.
Patrick Weston Joyce.--OLD CELTIC ROMANCES Translated from the
Gaelic. London, 1894.
A retelling in popular modern style of some of the more
important mythological and Fenian stories.
Lady Gregory.--GODS AND FIGHTING MEN. The story of the Tuatha
Dé Danaan and of the Fianna of Erin. Arranged and put into
English by Lady Gregory. With a Preface by W. B. Yeats. London,
1904.
Covers much the same ground as Mr. Joyce's book, but in
more literary manner.
Alfred Nutt.--OSSIAN AND THE OSSIANIC LITERATURE. No. 3 of
"Popular Studies in Mythology, Romance, and Folk-lore". London,
1899.
A short survey of the literature connected with the
Fenians.
John Gregorson Campbell, Minister of Tiree.--THE FIANS.
Stories, poems, and traditions of Fionn and his Warrior Band,
collected entirely from oral sources. With introduction and
bibliographical notes by Alfred Nutt. Vol. IV of "Waifs and
Strays of Celtic Tradition". London, 1891.
An account of the Fenians from the Scottish-Gaelic
side.
Alfred Nutt.--CUCHULAINN THE IRISH ACHILLES. No. 8 of "Popular
Studies in Mythology, Romance, and Folklore". London, 1900.
A brief but excellent introduction to the Cuchulainn
cycle.
Lady Gregory.--CUCHULAIN OF MUIRTHEMNE. The story of the Men
of the Red Branch of Ulster. Arranged and put into English by
Lady Gregory. With a Preface by W. B. Yeats. London, 1902.
A retelling in poetic prose of the tales connected with
Cuchulainn.
Eleanor Hull.--THE CUCHULLIN SAGA IN IRISH LITERATURE. Being a
collection of stories relating to the Hero Cuchullin, translated
from the Irish by various scholars. Compiled and edited with introduction and notes
by Eleanor Hull. With Map of Ancient Ireland. Grimm Library, Vol.
VIII. London, 1898.
A series of Cuchulainn stories from the ancient Irish
manuscripts. More literal than Lady Gregory's adaptation.
H. d'Arbois de Jubainville.--L'ÉPOPÉE CELTIQUE
EN IRLANDE. Vol. V of the "Cours de Littérature celtique".
Paris, 1892.
A collection, translated into French, of some of the
principal stories of the Cuchulainn cycle, with various
appendices upon Gaelic mythological subjects.
L. Winifred Faraday, M.A.--THE CATTLE RAID OF CUALGNE
(Táin Bo Cuailgne). An old Irish prose-epic translated for
the first time from the Leabhar na h-Uidhri and the Yellow Book
of Lecan. Grimm Library, Vol. XVI. London, 1904.
A strictly literal rendering of the central episode of the
Cuchulainn cycle.
BRITISH MYTHOLOGY
Ivor B. John.--THE MABINOGION. No. 11 of "Popular Studies in
Mythology, Romance, and Folklore". London, 1901.
A pamphlet introduction to the Mabinogion
literature.
Lady Charlotte Guest--THE MABINOGION. From the Welsh of the
LLYFR COCH O HERGEST (the Red Book of Hergest) in the library of
Jesus College, Oxford. Translated, with notes, by Lady Charlotte
Guest.
First edition. Text, translation, and notes, 3 vols.,
1849.
Translation and notes only, 1 vol., 1877.
The Boys' Mabinogion, 1881.
Cheap editions of this classic have been lately issued. One
may obtain it in Mr. Nutt's handsome little volume; as one of
Dent's "Temple Classics"; or in the "Welsh Library".
J. Loth.--LES MABINOGION, traduits en entier pour la
première fois en français avec un commentaire
explicatif et des notes critiques. 2 vols. Vols. III and IV of De
Jubainville's "Cours de Littérature celtique". Paris,
1889.
A more exact translation than that of Lady Guest, with
notes embodying more recent scholarship.
J. A. Giles, D.C.L.--OLD ENGLISH CHRONICLES, including . . .
Geoffrey of Monmouth's British History, Gildas, Nennius .. .
Edited, with illustrative notes, by J. A. Giles, D.C.L. "Bohn's
Antiquarian Library". London, 1901.
The most accessible edition of Geoffrey of
Monmouth.
Sir Thomas Malory.--THE MORTE DARTHUR. Edited by Dr. H. Oskar
Sommer. Vol. I--the Text. Vol. II--Glossary, Index, &c. Vol.
III--Study on the Sources. London, 1889-1891.
Vol. I of this, the best text of the Morte Darthur, can be
obtained separately.
Jessie L. Weston.--KING ARTHUR AND HIS KNIGHTS. A survey of
Arthurian romance. No. 4 of "Popular Studies in Mythology,
Romance, and Folklore". London, 1899.
Alfred Nutt.--THE LEGENDS OF THE HOLY GRAIL. No. 14 of
"Popular Studies in Mythology, Romance, and Folklore" London,
1902.
Useful introductions to a more special study of Arthurian
literature.
COMPARATIVE STUDY OF CELTIC MYTHOLOGY
John Rhys.--LECTURES ON THE ORIGIN AND GROWTH OF RELIGION AS
ILLUSTRATED BY CELTIC HEATHENDOM. "The Hibbert Lectures
for 1886." London, 1898.
John Rhys.--STUDIES IN THE ARTHURIAN LEGEND. Oxford, 1901.
These two volumes are the most important attempts yet made
towards a scientific and comprehensive study of the Celtic
mythology.
CELTIC FAIRY AND FOLK LORE
GAELIC
T. Crofton Croker.--FAIRY LEGENDS AND TRADITIONS OF THE SOUTH
OF IRELAND.
This book is one of the earliest, and, if not the most
scientific, perhaps the most attractive of the many collections
of Irish fairy-lore. Later compilations are Mr. William Laminie's
"West Irish Folktales and Romances", and Mr. Jeremiah Curtin's
"Hero Tales of Ireland", "Myths and Folklore of Ireland", and
"Tales of the Fairies, collected in South Munster". On the Scotch
side, notice should be particularly taken of Campbell's "Popular
Tales of the West Highlands" and the volumes entitled "Waifs and
Strays of Celtic Tradition". All these books are either recent or
recently republished, and are merely selected out of a large list
of works, valuable and other wise, upon this lighter side of
Celtic mythology.
BRITISH
John Rhys.--CELTIC FOLKLORE, WELSH AND MANX. 2 vols Oxford,
1901.
Wirt Sikes.--BRITISH GOBLINS: Welsh Folklore, Fairy Mythology,
Legends, and Traditions. By Wirt Sikes, United States Consul for
Wales. London, 1880.
FOLKLORE COMPARATIVELY TREATED
George Laurence Gomme.--ETHNOLOGY IN FOLKLORE, "Modern
Science" Series. London, 1892.
An attempt to assign apparently non-Aryan beliefs and
customs in the British islands to pre-Aryan inhabitants.
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