Celtic mythology
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"The authors to whom I am most indebted are Mr Elton ("Origins of English History") and Professor Rhys (“Celtic Britain" and in Academy. ) I mention also Mr Fitzgerald's article on the " Ancient Irish " in Fraser's Magazine for 1875, and his articles in the Revue Celtique. The materials-tales and myths are chiefly from Guest's " Mabinogion," Skene's " Ancient Books of Wales, " Joyce's " Celtic Romances," Kennedy's various books, O'Curry's Lectures, the Revue Celtique, Campbell's Popular Tales," and editions like Windisch's " Irische Texte." "--Celtic Mythology and Religion (1885) by Alexander Macbain |
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Celtic mythology is the mythology of Celtic polytheism, apparently the religion of the Iron Age Celts. Like other Iron Age Europeans, the early Celts maintained a polytheistic mythology and religious structure. Among Celts peoples in close contact with Ancient Rome, such as the Gauls and Celtiberians, their mythology did not survive the Roman empire, their subsequent conversion to Christianity, and the loss of their Celtic languages. It is mostly through contemporary Roman and Christian sources that their mythology has been preserved. The Celts peoples who maintained either their political or linguistic identities (such as the Gaels and Brythonic tribes of Great Britain and Ireland) left vestigial remnants of their forebears' mythologies, put into written form during the Middle Ages.
See also
- Cornish folklore
- Fisher King
- Hag of the mist
- Táin Bó Flidhais
- Triskele
- Celtic Mythology and Religion by Alexander Macbain
