- Paperback: 272 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins; New edition edition (10 Oct 1991)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0586211519
- ISBN-13: 978-0586211519
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 2.2 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,237,483 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Celtic legends have permeated mythologies worldwide, and this popular version shows why these tales have captured people's imagination for generations. In Delaney's lively retelling the legends present a vivid picture of an ancient world and his fascinating introduction lucidly discusses their historical origins. (Kirkus UK)
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The author recounts his favourite Celtic legends, drawing on the oral tradition of story telling of the last thousand years. He demonstrates the universality of our stories, and the many motifs that we have in common with ancient mythology.
The Celtic peoples fed on a rich mixture of legend and myth which, in many versions and derivations, were told at the firesides of Europe since before literacy. The Celts' ancestors had come from the foothills of the Himalayas, through the Middle East into Europe, and consequently many of the mythologies of the world connect with Celtic motifs. The most powerfully intact of the Celtic myths and legends are to be found in the Irish, Welsh and Breton tradition. Frank Delaney has been reading the Celtic legends since childhood and in this volume draws together their main strands, in a retelling of many of the most important mythologies. This book brings up-to-date the story-telling powers of the Celts.
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Corn and Maize, 13 April 2006
By kslan - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Legends of the Celts (Hardcover)
To the reviewer who found fault with the use of the word "corn" in this book:
The word "corn" in Britain and Ireland can refer to wheat or oats. This is what Delaney means (he's Irish -- born in Tipperary). The "corn" you are thinking of would be called "maize" across the pond -- so Delaney's use of the word is not incorrect.
I loved this book.
::I enjoyed this book for a while. Until I read "Cormac's Cup of Gold". There I ran across the line "Out on the plains of his royal meath, the green of the early corn waved to the breeze's patterns across the fields." This line then made me angry. Why you might ask? Because from every history class I have ever had, corn is a New World crop and would not have been used or available to the Celts.
If this mistake was made in a single sentence, what does it say for the scholarship that went into preparing and writing this book?::
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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Another great book from Delaney!, 12 Nov 2006
By Susan Baughman "sueinaustin" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Legends of the Celts (Paperback)
Another one to add to your collection if you're an Irish story-teller and story-sharer like myself.
Wonderfully written.
2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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"Corn" Meant "Wheat"!, 6 July 2008
By Diotima "Aspiring Feelinker/Theeler" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Legends of the Celts (Paperback)
In Old English "corn" meant "grain",mainly wheat in England, and oats in Scotland [Hard to grow hay in cool,damp Ireland}.
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