Celtic Myths and Legends

 

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As you should know Tuesdays is book blog day were we talk about one particular book and pretty much run with it. Today's blog is on the mammoth Celtic Myths and Legends by Peter Berresford Ellis.

This is an enchantingly told collection of the stirring sagas of gods and goddesses, fabulous beasts, strange creatures, and such heroes as Cuchulain, Fingal, and King Arthur from the ancient Celtic world. Included are popular myths and legends from all six Celtic cultures of Western Europe-Irish, Scots, Manx, Welsh, Cornish, and Breton. Here for the modern reader are the rediscovered tales of cattle raids, tribal invasions, druids, duels, and doomed love that have been incorporated into, and sometimes distorted by, European mythology and even Christian figures. For example, there is the story of Lugh of the Long Hand, one of the greatest gods in the Celtic pantheon, who was later transformed into the faerie craftsman Lugh-Chromain, and finally demoted to the lowly Leprechaun. Celtic Myths and Legends also retells the story of the classic tragic love story of Tristan and Iseult (probably of Cornish origin-there was a real King Mark and a real Tristan in Cornwall) and the original tale of King Arthur, a Welsh leader who fought against the invading Anglo-Saxons. In the hands of Peter Berresford Ellis, the myths sung by long-dead Celtic bards come alive to enchant the modern reader.

• Celtic Myths and Legends Goodreads page

The book was originally published on March 25^th 1999 under The Chronicles of the Celts, with this iteration baring the new name of Celtic Myths and Legends being published on January 27^th 2003 by publishers Running press adult. I do love this book and I believe its great for use as part of research however the structure can be a little bland, with recommendationa mainly to researchers and give it a 6-7/10.

Peter Berresford Ellis was born in Coventry on March 10^th 1943, His father Alan Ellis was a Cork-Born Journalist who began his career with The Cork Examiner, Berresford Ellis's mother was from an old Sussex family of Saxon origin with a lineage going back 14 generations. In response The Ellis family could be traced back in the Cork area in 1288. Having been educated at both Brighton College and Art and the University of London, Berresford Ellis graduated from North East London Polytechnic (Now part of Uni of E. London) in Celtic studies in 1989, earning a masters degree in the same field four years later from Uni of E. London. Peter Berresford Ellis is not only a British Historian but is also a Literary Biographer and Novelist with at least 98 books published either under his own name or that of his two aliases Peter MacAlan or Peter Tremayne under which he's published the Sister Fidelma historical mystery series. He has also published 100 short stories and his work has appeared in at least 25 languages.

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