Celtic Myths and Legends - by T.W. Rolleston (Complete)

by T.W. Rolleston

Overview

It is for an Anglo-Celtic people that this account of the early history, the religion, and the mythical and romantic literature of the Celtic race is written. It is hoped that that people will find in it things worthy to be remembered as contributions to the general stock of European culture, but worthy above all to be borne in mind by those who have inherited more than have any other living people of the blood, the instincts and the genius of the Celt.

Celtic origins, heroes, and stories spring to life in T. W. Rolleston’s classic work, Celtic Myths and Legends. Spanning thousands of years and across thousands of miles, these myths and legends offer a glimpse into worlds long gone that continue to influence modern culture.


The book includes classical accounts of Celtic tribes in Europe that describe their lives, the ancient gods and world of nature that they worshiped during and after their migrations to Britain and Ireland. Rolleston also retells stories from the three major cycles of Irish legend and from the ancient Welsh corpus.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013739796
Publisher:	Openbook
Publication date:	01/10/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	846,191
File size:	983 KB

About the Author

Poet and scholar Thomas William Hazen Rolleston was born in 1857, when the effects of Ireland’s Great Famine were still palpable and the Irish diaspora was in full force. While at Trinity College, Dublin, he won the Vice Chancellor’s Prize for English Verse. Later, he lived abroad working as a successful journalist and linguistic scholar in both Germany and London. Rolleston is remembered as a leader of the Irish Literary Revival movement, as an expert translator of Greek and German, and as a prolific scholar,