Download or read book The Firbolg Wars written by Rick Palinski and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-06-25 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Firbolg Wars is a Celtic story quest of a young man in search of himself and a kingship. After the death of his father, David embarks on a journey to confront the evil that has invaded his homeland. With his friends and companions, David crosses the country fighting the evil Firbolg creatures.

Download or read book The Firbolg Wars written by Rick Palinski and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-06-25 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Firbolg Wars is a Celtic story quest of a young man in search of himself and a kingship. After the death of his father, David embarks on a journey to confront the evil that has invaded his homeland. With his friends and companions, David crosses the country fighting the evil Firbolg creatures.

Download or read book The War of the Gods RLE Myth written by Jarich G. Oosten and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-05 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This structural analysis of myth, first published in 1985, focuses on social and political problems of Indo-European mythology. Dr Jarich Oosten tells how the ancient Indo-European gods competed for supreme power and the exclusive possession of the sacred potion of wisdom and immortality. In examining the social code of the wars of the gods, he reveals that there are remarkably consistent patterns in time and space: paternal relatives, equals at first, prove unable to share power, magic goods, etc; while some gods retain their divine status as an exclusive prerogative, their brothers or paternal cousins are transformed into demons; relatives by marriage, however, who are unequal at first, succeed in sharing power and magic goods, and thus become equal partners in the pantheon. Dr Oosten describes how the ancient mythological cycles were broken down and transformed into heroic sagas and epics, and shows how many traditionally related themes – the severed head, the magic cauldron – were preserved. Gradually the political problems of kingship came to overshadow the social problems of kinship, as in the development of the myths of King Arthur. Dr Oosten argues that the social code remains basically the same, and his analysis of this code gives a fascinating perspective on the development of Indo-European mythology from the oldest written sources to the comparatively recent faitytales.

Download or read book Gods Heroes and Kings The Battle for Mythic Britain written by Christopher R. Fee Assistant Professor of English Gettysburg College and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001-10-18 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The islands of Britain have been a crossroads of gods, heroes, and kings-those of flesh as well as those of myth-for thousands of years. Successive waves of invasion brought distinctive legends, rites, and beliefs. The ancient Celts displaced earlier indigenous peoples, only to find themselves displaced in turn by the Romans, who then abandoned the islands to Germanic tribes, a people themselves nearly overcome in time by an influx of Scandinavians. With each wave of invaders came a battle for the mythic mind of the Isles as the newcomer's belief system met with the existing systems of gods, legends, and myths. In Gods, Heroes, and Kings, medievalist Christopher Fee and veteran myth scholar David Leeming unearth the layers of the British Isles' unique folkloric tradition to discover how this body of seemingly disparate tales developed. The authors find 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, so that by the time Chaucer wrote "The Wife of Bath's Tale" in the fourteenth century, a Christian theme of redemption fought for prominence with a tripartite Celtic goddess and the Arthurian legends of Sir Gawain-itself a hybrid mythology. Without a guide, the corpus of British mythology can seem impenetrable. Taking advantage of the latest research, Fee and Leeming employ a unique comparative approach to map the origins and development of one of the richest folkloric traditions. Copiously illustrated with excerpts in translation from the original sources, Gods, Heroes, and Kings provides a fascinating and accessible new perspective on the history of British mythology.

Download or read book The Annals of Ireland written by Michael O'Clery and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translated from the Original Irish.

Download or read book The Annals of Ireland from A D 1171 to A D 1616 Translated from the Original Irish of the Four Masters by O Connellan with Annotations by P MacDermott and the Translator written by Michael O'Clery and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Historical Writing in Britain 1688 1830 written by B. Dew and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-10-21 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical Writing in Britain, 1688-1830 explores a series of debates concerning the nature and value of the past in the long eighteenth century. The essays investigate a diverse range of subjects including art history, biography, historical poetry, and novels, as well as addressing more conventional varieties of historical writing.

Download or read book On the manners and customs of the ancient Irish lects ed with an intr by W K Sullivan written by Eugene O'Curry and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book On the Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish written by Eugene O'Curry and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The annals of Ireland tr from the orig Irish of the Four masters by O Connellan written by Michael O'Clery and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Story of the Irish Race written by Seumas MacManus and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The History of Ireland Ancient and Modern written by Martin Haverty and published by Dublin : J. Duffy. This book was released on 1860 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Myths Legends of the Celtic Race written by T. W. Rolleston and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2020-03-16 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Myths and Legends of the Celtic Race by T.W. Rolleston is about a variety of myths about a group of people now considered the Bretons, the Cornish, the Irish, the Manx, the Scots, and the Welsh. Excerpt: "CHAPTER I: THE CELTS IN ANCIENT HISTORY . . . 7 CHAPTER II: THE RELIGION OF THE CELTS . . . . 36 CHAPTER III: THE IRISH INVASION MYTHS . . . . . 75 CHAPTER IV: THE EARLY MILESIAN KINGS . . . . 120 CHAPTER V: TALES OF THE ULTONIAN CYCLE . . 148 CHAPTER VI: TALES OF THE OSSIANIC CYCLE . . . 215 CHAPTER VII: THE VOYAGE OF MAELDUN . . . . . 265 CHAPTER VIII: MYTHS AND TALES OF THE CYMRY 284."

Download or read book Sunshaker s War written by Tom Deitz and published by Untreed Reads. This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WAR OF THE WORLDS An evil brew has boiled over in the mystical realm of the Sidhie…a great conflict has devastated the lands of Faerie—and its earth-shaking repercussions can be felt across the boundaries of the mortal lands. Young David Sullivan has been to the Otherworld, and knows of its mysteries…and its terrors. Now he must somehow find his way past the magically sealed borders of Tir-Nan-Og—for the life of a mortal friend hangs in the balance. And if the dreaded war continues unchecked, the harnessed power of the Sun will unleash the forces of chaos and death in two separate worlds on Midsummer’s Day… “Deitz gives every indication of having several more equally impressive tales up his sleeve. Few writers match personal crisis with epic conflict as effectively.” Dragon