Vargen och hans tuffa gäng har muckat med fel MARSVIN. De har brutit sig in i hans hönsfarm och befriat hans hönor. Och nu är den otäcke lille gnagaren ute efter hämnd. Kommer de att överleva? Kommer de att bli HJÄLTAR igen? I En gnagares hämnd får…
"'Dear holy cleric,' they said, 'these old warriors tell you no more than a third of their stories, because their memories are faulty. Have these stories written down on poets' tablets in refined language, so that the hearing of them will provide en…
Then they took the flowers of the oak, and the flowers of the broom, and the flowers of the meadowsweet, and from those they conjured up the fairest and most beautiful maiden that anyone had ever seen.Celtic mythology, Arthurian romance, and an intr…
'I cannot be killed indoors,' he said, 'nor out of doors; I cannot be killed on horseback, nor on foot.' 'Well,' she said, 'how can you be killed?'Celtic mythology, Arthurian romance, and an intriguing interpretation of British history - these are j…
Taliesin, Chief Bard of Britain and Celtic shaman, was a historical figure who lived in Wales during the latter half of the sixth century. Encoded within his work are the ancestral beliefs of the Celtic and pre-Celtic peoples. In addition, his verse…
An anthology.
Thomas Kinsella presents a complete and living version of the story. His translation is based on the partial texts in two medieval manuscripts, with elements from other versions, and adds a group of related stories which prepare for the action of th…
First written down in the eighth century AD, these early Irish stories depict a far older world - part myth, part legend and part history. Rich with magic and achingly beautiful, they speak of a land of heroic battles, intense love and warrior ideal…
A comprehensive collection of poems and prayers from the Gaelic tradition in a one-volume edition in English only.
A collection of writings from the time of Queen Elizabeth I and the Stuarts, by Catholics who refused to attend Protestant services. They discuss many aspects of Catholic devotions and dogma and give an illuminating insight into their lives and time…
The early Welsh Saga Englynion are lyric poems in character, long presumed to be the poetic remains of lost stories, told in a mixture of prose and verse. Three main cycles survive, centred on the figures of Llywarch Hen, who loses all his sons in h…
A gripping tale of tangled relationships and shadowy secrets, set in the dramatic surrounds of Ireland's famed Atlantic coastline Maureen lies unconscious on a lonely track. Her husband blames a fellow holidaymaker at Nessa McDermott's country house…
`This admirable survey...compact, smoothly written, easy to read and digest, yet indicative throughout of profound scholarship and an obvious mastery of the field, Cornish Literatureprovides an enduring guide to this small but significant genre. The…
Between 1878 and 1881, Standish O'Grady published a three-volume History of Ireland that simultaneously recounted the heroic ancient past of the Irish people and helped to usher in a new era of cultural revival and political upheaval. At the heart o…
This book offers an introduction in English to the Welsh-language literature of the 19th century. It covers important individual writers of prose and poetry, the lyric poetic tradition and the eisteddfod poets, travel writing, periodicals and newspa…
Compiled by a noted folklorist and first published in 1879, this treasury of authentic tales from Celtic mythology has become a classic. Abounding with brave warriors, fair maidens, monsters, and mermaids, the 13 stories in this volume include "The…
How does a written literature come into being within an oral culture, and how does such a literature achieve and maintain its authority? Joseph Falaky Nagy addresses those issues in his wide-ranging reading of the medieval literature of Ireland, fro…
A disarming novel that asks a simple question: Can gentle people change the world? In this charming and truly unique debut, popular Irish musician Ronan Hession tells the story of two single, thirty-something men who still live with their parents…
Provides a detailed critical introduction to the literature of the Welsh language in the 20th century. Aimed at the general reader with little or no knowledge of the Welsh language, this text sets out the essential social background to the literatur…
Destiny, magic and chance, human strength and weaknesses - compelling and beautiful. The classic masterpiece of Celtic mythology and Arthurian romance.
A study of Dafydd ap Gwilym's verse in the light of the traditions of courtly and popular poetry and with consideration of the European influences on his work.
This book introduces a new theoretical framework for the examination of medieval Western European perceptions of the Orient. Through the application of the medieval concept of translatio studii et imperii, it proposes the identification of three dis…
Composed in a golden age of Celtic storytelling in the thirteenth century or earlier, this collection of 12 Welsh prose tales is a masterpiece of European literature. Though written down in the Middle Ages, these stories are thought by scholars to b…
This novella recounts the imagination of a lonely old man who becomes obsessed by a beautiful young girl in his village. His every moment is filled with thoughts and fantasies about her. Eventually lines cross as this fantasy becomes a reality, pate…
"This edited volume will make a major contribution to our appreciation of the importance of classical literature and learning in medieval Ireland, and particularly to our understanding of its role in shaping the content, structure and transmission o…
The author of this volume is acknowledged as one of the most distinguished translators of Welsh into English. In this collection of essays he discusses the process of translation both generally and with reference to specific examples, offering insig…
This bilingual edition of Sean O Tuama's selected poems aims to reintroduce the work of Ireland's foremost Irish language poet to a new generation of readers.
This volume of the very successful Guide to Welsh Literature series, examines the period from the end of the thirteenth century to the beginning of the sixteenth century. Apart from the first and last chapters, the book is exclusively concerned with…
This book gives a text, an English translation, and a commentary on a medieval verse history of the kings of Ireland and Scotland from the ninth to the 11th centuries. This study examines the Prophecy of Berchan as a historical record with much to o…
Coire Sois, The Cauldron of Knowledge: A Companion to Early Irish Saga offers thirty-one previously published essays by Tomas O Cathasaigh, which together constitute a magisterial survey of early Irish narrative literature in the vernacular.O Cathas…
In 2000, a sixteenth-century manuscript containing a copy of a previously unknown play in Middle Cornish, probably composed in the second half of the fifteenth century, was discovered among papers bequeathed to the National Library of Wales, Aberyst…
In Playing the Hero, Ann Dooley examines the surviving manuscript versions of the greatest of the early Irish sagas, the T in B Cuailnge (Cattle-Raid of Cooley), and creates a picture of the cultural conditions and literary mind-sets under which med…
Medieval Irish texts reveal distinctive and unexpected constructions of gender. Constructing Gender in Medieval Ireland illuminates these ideas through its fresh and provocative re-readings of a wide range of texts, including saga, romance, legal te…
Compiled in Middle Welsh during the 12th and 13th centuries, the Mabinogion is a mesmerising panorama of fantasy, romance, tragedy and humour. Blending Arthurian romance, Welsh legend and mythology, it tells tales of heroic knights, fair maidens, dr…
English translations of selected poems by modern Wales's foremost man-of-letters, including an introduction and comprehensive notes.
Welsh Writing, Political Action and Incarceration examines the prison literature of certain iconic Welsh authors whose political lives and creative writings are linked to ideas about Wales and the Welsh language, the nature of political activism, an…
First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Also known as The Cattle Raid of Cooley, this ancient Irish legend recounts the heroic feats of Cu Chulainn. The central epic of the eighth-century Ulster cycle, the story is written mostly in prose and set in the pre-Christian era. Scenes of fierce…
Strange Beauty provides a new perspective on early Celtic stories of the Otherworld and their relevance to today's ecological concerns, arguing for a contemporary re-reading of the Otherworld trope in relation to physical experience.
This is the third of a series of volumes outlining the history and development of Welsh literature from its beginnings in the sixth century to the present day. This volume contains 11 essays examining the literature of Wales and its historical backg…
