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Celtic Mythology

Irish and Welsh myth cycles, druids, heroic material, otherworlds, gods, saints' lives, and folklore transmission.

Ireland / Britain / GaulAncient-medieval sources5 readable texts2 indexed sources
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Mabinogion

Celtic MythologyLegend / Oral Tradition

The Mabinogion in a public-domain English translation for Celtic myth and Arthurian comparison.

Middle Welsh· Medieval manuscripts; 19th-century English translation

Gods and Fighting Men

Celtic MythologyLegend / Oral Tradition

Lady Gregory's Gods and Fighting Men is indexed for Tuatha De Danann, Lugh, the Dagda, the Morrigu, Manannan, the Children of Lir, Finn, Oisin, Fianna, geasa, Otherworld journeys, battle, kingship, and heroic-cycle comparison.

Irish source traditions arranged in English· Irish mythic material from medieval manuscript and oral traditions; 1905 public-domain English arrangement

The Cattle-Raid of Cualnge

Celtic MythologyLegend / Oral Tradition

Faraday's Cattle-Raid of Cualnge is indexed for Medb, Ailill, Cuchulainn, Fergus, the Brown Bull, geasa, war-band honor, prophecy, single combat, heroic rage, and Irish Ulster Cycle comparison.

Old Irish· medieval Irish manuscript tradition; 1904 public-domain English translation

Cuchulain, the Hound of Ulster

Celtic MythologyLegend / Oral Tradition

Eleanor Hull's connected narrative of the whole Cuchulain saga: the hero's birth-tales and boyhood deeds, his training under the woman-warrior Scathach in Shadowland, the winning of Emer, the Cattle-Raid of Cualnge, the Morrigan, his breaking of geasa, death and vengeance. A standard public-domain gateway to the Ulster Cycle beyond the bare Tain text.

Old and Middle Irish (retold in English)· Published 1909; source tales c. 8th-12th century CE, oral tradition older

Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race (Selections)

Celtic MythologyScholarly Reconstruction

Rolleston's retelling of the Irish Mythological Cycle: the invasion myths of Partholan, Nemed, the Firbolgs, the god-race of the Tuatha De Danann and the Milesians, the battles of Moytura, the early Milesian kings, and the otherworld voyage of Maeldun. Selected chapters III, IV and VII; the Ulster, Fenian and Welsh chapters are omitted as the corpus indexes those cycles separately.

Old and Middle Irish sources (retold in English)· Published 1911; underlying invasion myths recorded c. 11th-12th century CE
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Mabinogion

Welsh mythic prosemedieval manuscripts
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public-domain Lady Charlotte Guest translation loaded

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Irish myth cycles

mythic prose/poetrymedieval manuscripts
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public-domain Lady Gregory and L. Winifred Faraday English editions loaded

Gods and Fighting Men and The Cattle-Raid of Cualnge are indexed for Tuatha De Danann, Fianna, Ulster Cycle, Lugh, the Dagda, the Morrigu, Manannan, Finn, Oisin, Medb, Cuchulainn, geasa, Otherworld journeys, sacred kingship, battle, and heroic-cycle comparison.

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Questions this area should answer
  • How do medieval manuscripts preserve older pagan material?
  • What is myth, folklore, or saintly overlay?
  • How do otherworld journeys compare?