Legends of the Celts

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' ^^^he Celts used their mythology, moral, heroic, nf^ magical, to give themselves a history and a ^^^ system for living. Consequently their stories inspire, thrill and enchant, while exhibiting all the worst qualities of humankind - greed, vengefulness, deviousness, violence. In myth as in life they abundantly embraced both goodness and badness and feared only boredom.'

LEGENDS
-OF THE-
CEITS
ver the sea, there lay a realm I of glory. The exact _ geographical position has never been determined - somewhere in the direction of the Azores perhaps, a skyline so bewitchingly clear on occasion that men set sail, futilely, to find this eternal place.'
The Celtic peoples - as Frank Delaney showed in his enthralling BBC television series. The Celts - 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... Tovább

Fülszöveg

' ^^^he Celts used their mythology, moral, heroic, nf^ magical, to give themselves a history and a ^^^ system for living. Consequently their stories inspire, thrill and enchant, while exhibiting all the worst qualities of humankind - greed, vengefulness, deviousness, violence. In myth as in life they abundantly embraced both goodness and badness and feared only boredom.'

LEGENDS
-OF THE-
CEITS
ver the sea, there lay a realm I of glory. The exact _ geographical position has never been determined - somewhere in the direction of the Azores perhaps, a skyline so bewitchingly clear on occasion that men set sail, futilely, to find this eternal place.'
The Celtic peoples - as Frank Delaney showed in his enthralling BBC television series. The Celts - 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 storytelling powers of the Celts. Each of the legends chosen by the author is brought to life in vivid, often thrilling detail, which not only recaptures an ancient world for the modem reader, but through a revealing Introduction, identifies many of the main motifs which Celtic mythology shared with other ancient civilisations. Vissza