Celtic Legends - Hardcover

Amber Books

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1435162463 ISBN 13: 9781435162464

Publisher: Metro, 2016

Synopsis

Celtic Legends offers tales of intrigue and enchantment, of love and war, of feuding families, brigands and rebels, of honor and disgrace. Celtic myth has a special quality, at once both immediate and remote. From around 750 BC to 12 BC, the Celts were one of the most powerful peoples in central and western Europe. With the expansion of the Roman Empire and the later Christianization of these lands, the Celts were pushed to the Atlantic fringes: northwest Spain, France, and the British Isles. But there the mythology of these peoples held strong. The tales were recorded in medieval sources, such as the Mabinogion, the Ulster Cycle, and the Fenian Cycle. From Roman and Christian scribes we know of characters like Morrigan, the shape-shifting queen who could change herself from a crow to a wolf; Cú Chulainn, who, mortally wounded in battle, tied himself with his own intestines to a rock so that he would die standing up; Finn mac Cumhaill, who built Antrim's Giant's Causeway; and the god Daghda, who could kill nine men or more with a single swing of his fearsome hammer. Illustrated with more than 180 artworks, Celtic Legends is an entertaining account of the mythology of a fascinating and ancient culture.

About this edition

• Publisher: Metro
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1435162463
• ISBN 13: 9781435162464
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224