Mythology of Ancient Britain and Ireland

by Charles Squire

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88 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1906

Reviews

[123bex]

An interesting little Who's Who. No depth in itself, but a great jumping-off point for further research.

[Silvio Curtis]

Gives an overview of early Irish and Welsh stories about gods, or at least characters who may have been considered gods before Christianity spread through the islands. I recognize some of the Welsh ones from the Prydain Chronicles. Very short, which may be the reason why it is a bit confusing. The legends seem to come from a very wide variety of sources, all written by Christians, so it makes sense that the facts are complicated and uncertain. This book is early twentieth century, so I don't know if the state of knowledge has progressed at all since then.

[Russell Stamets]

What a melting pot of cultures and their myths