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...The Mabinogion is a collection of eleven prose stories collated from medieval Welsh manuscripts. The tales draw on pre-Christian Celtic mythology, international folktale motifs, and early medieval historical traditions. While some details may hark back to older Iron Age traditions, each of these tales is the product of a highly developed Welsh narrativ...

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...Donald Alexander Mackenzie (1873 – March 2, 1936) was a Scottish journalist and prolific writer on religion, mythology and anthropology in the early 20th century. His works included Indian Myth and Legend, Celtic Folklore and Myths of China and Japan. As well as writing books, articles and poems, he often gave lectures, and also bro...

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...nian, Armenian, Balto-Slavic, Indian, and Iranian branches. To the west, Celtic, Hellenic, Italic, and Teutonic sibling tongues emerged. First... ...outhern Britain in 54 and 55 BC, but most of the island natives spoke the Celtic tongue. Crossing over from central Europe to Britain and Ireland, th... ... Three centuries after the Roman Legions had left for good, many in the Celtic population still called themselves Romani and considered the legion... ...at English ―completely supplanted Latin (save in the Church) and drove the Celtic tongue forever to the north and west. The evolution of English ... ... pull it back down to join another line of type. According to back shop mythology, these marvelous machines have ten thousand moving parts! Duri...

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...nian, Armenian, Balto-Slavic, Indian, and Iranian branches. To the west, Celtic, Hellenic, Italic, and Teutonic sibling tongues emerged. First... ...outhern Britain in 54 and 55 BC, but most of the island natives spoke the Celtic tongue. Crossing over from central Europe to Britain and Ireland, th... .... Three centuries after the Roman Legions had left for good, many in the Celtic population still called themselves Romani and considered the legion... ...at English ―completely supplanted Latin (save in the Church) and drove the Celtic tongue forever to the north and west. The evolution of English do... ...n pull it back down to join another line of type. According to back shop mythology, these marvelous machines have ten thousand moving parts! During...

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...them as temporary, as the outcomes of someone else's errors, as part of the future mythology of his rise to power/brilliance/wealth/ideal love, etc... ...machine . No other form of life-after-death was wished (and considered) by the old Celtic races: sons (propagation of genetic material). In fact, w...

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...herself by thinking it other than her own personal concoction at a different mythology the way Psalm 104 might have seemed original long after the Gre... ...venly laid out the whole of this partial motto-mottled deck in a larger than Celtic layout beginning with the cards patterned out as a cross; meditate... ...od ornithologist, got nebulous readings of Tarot cards that she smacked into Celtic designs on her bed, or sometimes drew funny faces on the patio wit... ...uded herself in a sense that she was free from the powers of men, sexuality, mythology, motherhood, and all human concern that gnawed into one's entra...

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...ated by the book belongs to them because they own the copyright. In the mythology generated by capitalism to pacify the masses, the myth of intelle... ... No other form of life-after-death was wished (and considered) by the old Celtic races: sons (propagation of genetic material). In fact, what other ...

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... in the short transitional Part Two (Hesitation) and attains a more hopeful tone in the final Part Three (Escape). Yet a dreamy effect, influenced by Celtic and Druid mythology, persists throughout. Spirits in Bondage consists of forty poems that provide an intriguing insight into the youthful heart of C.S. Lewis and occasionally provides interesting lyrical foreshadowing ...

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...hese he adds to Geoffrey’s narrative two that bear unmistakable signs of a Celtic origin, and that were destined to become important elements in later... ... long lived, abounding in “virtues most good.” Layamon, too, gives a truly Celtic version of Arthur’s disap pearance from earth. Two fairy maidens be... ...e, which is vastly more complete than Wace’s, bear unmistakable marks of a Celtic origin. Layamon, in fact, living as he did near the Welsh border, na... ... most cases conveys the idea of bril liant whiteness, a characteristic of Celtic fairy objects. His ship, for example, is named White Form, his shiel... ...hurian Chronicles:Roman De Brut (Caletvwlch, Caliburn, Excalibur) is a Pan Celtic marvellous object, and is one of Arthur’s most famous possessions. T... ..., as I have already shown he might easily have done ( Studies in the Fairy Mythology of Arthurian Romance , Boston, 1903, pp. 26 28), or, as Professor... ...ussed the various versions of Arthur’s stay in Avalon in Studies in Fairy Mythology , chapter III. On Avalon, see id., p. 40, note 2. On the early b...

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... deep sequestered dell Had sought a low and lonely cell. By many a bard in Celtic tongue Has Coir-nan-Uriskin been sung A softer name the Saxons gave,... ...ccording to Graham, it is “the scene of the death of a wild boar famous in Celtic tradition.” 114. Unbated. Cf. Shakespeare, M. of V . ii. 6. 11: “Whe... ...f. Wb. 504. Here for retreat, etc. Scott has the following note here: “The Celtic chieftains, whose lives were continually exposed to peril, had usual... ...821 reads “had harbored.” 319. Beltane. The first of May, when there was a Celtic festi- val in honor of the sun. Beltane = Beal-tein, or the fire of ... ...song! Oh! courteous champion of Montrose! Oh! stately warrior of the Celtic Isles! Thou shalt buckle thy harness on no more!’ “The coronach h... ...cinity of Loch Katrine. The learned author is inclined to deduce the whole mythology from the Druidical system—an opinion to which there are many ob- ... ...mission of similar tales from age to age, and from country to country. The mythology of one period would then appear to pass into the romance of the n...

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...ion of about 50,000, fully three- fourths of whom had a strong infusion of Celtic blood in them. The mode of life was, and is, rather pastoral than au... ...d heavy ice and rime, (8) T o all interested in the subject of comparative mythology, Andrew Lang’s two admirable books, “Custom and Myth” (1884, 8vo)... ...entive folk, possessed of high culture and great learning. The infusion of Celtic blood, however slight it may have been, had also something to do wit... ...should be in (3) “Norns came to him.” Nornir are the fates of the northern mythology. They are three — “Urd”, the past; “Verdandi”, the present; and “...

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...at of the con- science. Now, for a rude and uncultivated people, the Pagan mythology might not be too gross to discharge the main functions of a usefu... ...our moral obligations, and of our consolations in misery, except the fairy mythology of our nurses. The condition of a people so situated, of a people... ...mmer heat nor in winter’s cold, did he cover his head; but, as well in the Celtic snows as in Egyptian heats, he went about bareheaded.” This anecdote...

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...n legends— such as that of “Heinzelman,” to be found in Keightley’s “Fairy Mythology,” and to “T eague of the Lea,” as related in Croker’s “Irish Fair... ... years a mark for plots and conspiracies; and the vindictive temper of the Celtic race leading him to avenge the death of his brother upon every Engli...

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... upon her, expressed herself almost poetically, owing to the genius of the Celtic language in which she thought, and in which, doubtless, she would ha... ...rfae, and tribute from meaner men. [Caberfae—anglice, the Stag’s-head, the Celtic designation for the arms of the family of the high Chief of Seaforth... ... propitiation, which some have thought has been derived from the Druidical mythology. It consists, as is well known, in the person who makes the deasi...

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...lus, as the mythus itself differs so much from all the rest of the Grecian mythology, (belonging apparently to an age and a people more gloomy, auster... ...blood was different; and by a wider difference, perhaps, than that between Celtic and T eutonic. The garru- lous Athenian despised the hesitating (but...

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...t, a mechanical ex- pert of some sort, a railway peer, geniuses, hairy and Celtic, people of no clearly definable position, but all quite unequal to t... ...in a quick tenor. “Instead of propounding plainly and without the acereted mythology of Asia Minor, Greece and Rome, the pure Gospel of Christ…. they ...

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...etrable mystery— she bought into lotteries. Can that be the abyss of which mythology warns us under the fable of the Danaides and their cask? Madame D... ...e ruins of the basilica, which itself stood above the Roman temple and the Celtic Dun. These ruins, each of which represents a period of sev- eral cen...

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...ds of him and the wine-flask. There must be meanings to that effect in the Mythology, awaiting unravelment. For the subject opens to deeper than cella... ...ympathetic. Only the Welsh and pure Irish are quick at the feelings of the Celtic French. Nataly came of a Yorkshire stock; she had the bravery, human... ...a forest foli- age—rustle of silks and muslins, magic interweaving, or the mythology, if you prefer it. See, hear, smell, they are Juno, Venus, Hebe, ...

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... history witnesses that vast convulsions have rent and weakened it and the Celtic feeling towards the Stuarts has been rekindled in our own days towar... ...ce.”—Dryden’s Virgil, ii. 479. 485 Pope 205 The destinies ordain.—“In the mythology, also, of the Iliad, purely Pagan as it is, we discover one impor... ...his legend is one of the most pregnant and characteris- tic in the Grecian Mythology; it explains, according to the religious ideas familiar to the ol...

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...lfth chap- ter, twenty-fourth section, of his “Introduction to a System of Mythology,” says: “I have here gone on the assumption which I consider unav... ...- ance, of that native Lancashire population, as yet not much alloyed with Celtic adulteration. My feelings towards them are the same as were eloquent... ...phically or ethnographically, of its traditions, the vast labyrinth of its mythology, the deductions of its con- tradictory genealogies, the disputed ...

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...l. And a little after, speaking of her death:— The numerous nations of the Celtic foe Bore her not living to the banks of Po; Their heavy shields upon... ...story, and a little after came Camillus’s banishment. The Gauls are of the Celtic race, and are reported to have been compelled by their numbers to le... ... at a single moment upon us, really outdoes the hun- dred-handed giants of mythology?” And, doubtless, the rest of the Syracusans were but the body of... ... discerning future events by dim and uncertain intima- tions. This was the mythology of the wisest of the Tuscan sages, who were thought to possess a ... ...in his land, seemed to restore to the world that community of goods, which mythology says existed in the reign of Saturn. Those who object to him that...

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... SAXON By George Meredith 1910 CHAPTER I WHEREIN AN EXCURSION IS MADE IN A CELTIC MIND A YOUNG IRISH GENTLEMAN of the numerous clan O’Donnells, and a ... ...d. Or, if you insist, the condition shall be said to belong exclusively to Celtic nature, seeing that it had been drawn directly from a scion of one o... ...e off to decipher a bit of Egyptian on baked brick,’ he thought, incurably Celtic as he was. From the moment when he beheld Mr. Adister’s phaeton moun... ...try.’ The captain holloaed. ‘Do they hear that? Lord! but wouldn’t our old Celtic fill the world with poetry if only we were a free people to give our... ...nt mixture. 125 George Meredith CHAPTER XVI OF THE GREAT MR. BULL AND THE CELTIC AND SAXON VIEW OF HIM: AND SOMETHING OF RICHARD ROCKNEY MEANWHILE I ... ...thing new in musical composition and abstract specula- tion of an indecent mythology, or political contrivances and schemes of Government, and we do n...

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...s hunting grounds away. He comes with a list of ancient Saxon, Norman, and Celtic names, and strews them up and down this river,—Framingham, Sudbury, ... ... “O, that Robinson Crusoe must have been a great prophet!” To some extent, mythology is only the most ancient his tory and biography. So far from bei... ...tury was equal to a thousand years. The poet is he who can write some pure mythology to day without the aid of posterity. In how few words, for instan... ...oirs to serve for a history,” which itself is but materials to serve for a mythology. How many volumes folio would the Life and Labors of Prometheus h... ...Him that made him? 51 HenryDavidThoreau One memorable addition to the old mythology is due to this era,—the Christian fable. With what pains, and tea... ..., and tears, and blood these centuries have woven this and added it to the mythology of mankind. The new Prometheus. With what miraculous consent, and...

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...Middleton, “is the observation of a student of the dictionary of classical mythology in the En- glish tongue.” “The Theatre is a matter of climate, si... ...ctor’s arm to check him on the way to the station in view. Dr Corney had a Celtic intelligence for a meaning behind an illogical tongue. He drew up, o... ...e it held him silent as if under a law, heaped stores of insurgency in the Celtic bo- som. Corney contemplating Sir Willoughby, and a trotting kern go...

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...tended to the region of fancy . Gargantua has been proved by some to be of Celtic origin. Very often he is a solar myth, and the statement that Rabela... ... you, and you may take it as extracted out of the profoundest mysteries of mythology, that, when the giants had enterprised the waging of a war agains... ...a territory of that appellation; Staechas from the Staechad Islands; Spica Celtica from the land of the Celtic Gauls, and so throughout a great many o...

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...r pans of incense; dispensing sweet incense- fumes,—unless for the Heathen Mythology, one sees not for whom. Two hundred thousand Patriotic Men; and, ... ...scent, doubt it not; though no Moniteur has reported them. They scolded in Celtic Welsh, those Brennuses; neither were they Sansculotte; nay rather br...