The Mythology of the British Islands: An Introduction to Celtic Myth, Legend, Poetry, and RomanceBlackie and son, limited, 1905 - 446 sider |
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... took of good Sir Huon's hand , When with King Oberon he came to Fairyland " . " 1 To trace Welsh and Irish kings and saints and hermits back to " the elemental powers of earth and fire , and the spirits that haunted the woods and ...
... took of good Sir Huon's hand , When with King Oberon he came to Fairyland " . " 1 To trace Welsh and Irish kings and saints and hermits back to " the elemental powers of earth and fire , and the spirits that haunted the woods and ...
Side 27
... took the form of gold bracelets , rings , pins , and brooches , and of beads of amber , glass , and jet . Their knives , daggers , spear - heads , axes , and swords were made of bronze or iron ; their shields were the same round target ...
... took the form of gold bracelets , rings , pins , and brooches , and of beads of amber , glass , and jet . Their knives , daggers , spear - heads , axes , and swords were made of bronze or iron ; their shields were the same round target ...
Side 37
... took the shape of human sacrifice , and that upon a scale which would seem to have been unsurpassed in horror even by the most savage tribes of West Africa or Polynesia . " The whole Gaulish nation " , says Caesar , " is to a great ...
... took the shape of human sacrifice , and that upon a scale which would seem to have been unsurpassed in horror even by the most savage tribes of West Africa or Polynesia . " The whole Gaulish nation " , says Caesar , " is to a great ...
Side 40
... took the place , in the Chris- tian calendar , of the heathen Samhain- " Summer's End " when the sun's power waned , and the strength of the gods of darkness , winter , and the underworld grew great . 1 The first King of the Milesians ...
... took the place , in the Chris- tian calendar , of the heathen Samhain- " Summer's End " when the sun's power waned , and the strength of the gods of darkness , winter , and the underworld grew great . 1 The first King of the Milesians ...
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... took their well - known name of Tuatha Dé Danann , " Tribe " or " Folk of the Goddess Danu " . The second owned allegiance to a female divinity called Domnu ; their king , Indech , is de- scribed as her son , and they are all called ...
... took their well - known name of Tuatha Dé Danann , " Tribe " or " Folk of the Goddess Danu " . The second owned allegiance to a female divinity called Domnu ; their king , Indech , is de- scribed as her son , and they are all called ...
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ancient Angus Annwn Arianrod Arthur Arthurian Legend Aryan asked Balor bard battle Bodb Book Brân Branwen Bress Britain British Britons Caer called castle cauldron Celtic mythology Celtique Celts chap chariot Cian Conchobar Cuchulainn Dagda Danu daughter death deities Diarmait divine Dôn druids Dyfed Emain Macha Eochaid Erin Etain fairy father feast Fenians Fergus fight Finn Fir Bolgs Fomors Gaelic Gaels goddess Danu gods Goibniu Gwydion Gwyn Hades heroes Hibbert Lectures hounds Ibid Ireland Irish island killed King Kulhwch land Leinster Lêr Lleu Lludd Llyr Lugh Mabinogi Mabinogion magic Manannán Manawyddan Mâth Medb Mider Morte Darthur myth mythical night Nuada Nudd Olwen Ossian pagan Partholon poem Pronounced Pryderi Pwyll race Red Branch replied Rhiannon Rhys romance Saint sent sidh sons of Tuirenn spear story sun-god Taliesin tells told tradition translated tribes Tuatha Dé Danann Ulster Wales warriors Welsh wife
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Side 123 - But now farewell. I am going a long way With these thou seest - if indeed I go (For all my mind is clouded with a doubt) To the island-valley of Avilion; Where falls not hail, or rain, or any snow, Nor ever wind blows loudly; but it lies Deep-meadow'd, happy, fair with orchard-lawns And bowery hollows crown'd with summer sea, Where I will heal me of my grievous wound.
Side 331 - More yellow was her head than the flower of the broom, and her skin was whiter than the foam of the wave, and fairer were her hands and her fingers than the blossoms of the wood anemone amidst the spray of the meadow fountain.
Side 331 - And the youth pricked forth upon a steed with head dappled grey, of four winters old, firm of limb, with shell-formed hoofs, having a bridle of linked gold on his head, and upon him a saddle of costly gold. And in the youth's hand were two spears of silver, sharp, well-tempered, headed with steel, three ells in length, of an edge to wound the wind, and cause blood to flow, and swifter than the fall of the dewdrop from the blade of reedgrass upon the earth when the dew of June is at the heaviest.
Side 255 - So they took the blossoms of the oak, and the blossoms of the broom, and the blossoms of the meadow-sweet, and produced from them a maiden, the fairest and most graceful that man ever saw. And they baptized her, and gave her the name of Flower-Aspect.
Side 344 - Rather than that gray king, whose name, a ghost, Streams like a cloud, man-shaped, from mountain peak, And cleaves to cairn and cromlech still...
Side 251 - So they had the boy baptized, and as they baptized him he plunged into the sea. And immediately when he was in the sea, he took its nature, and swam as well as the best fish that was therein. And for that reason was he called Dylan, the son of the Wave. Beneath him no wave ever broke. And the blow whereby he came to his death, was struck by his uncle Govannion.
Side 335 - A cursed ungentle son-in-law, truly! As long as I remain alive, my eyesight will be the worse. Whenever I go against the wind, my eyes will water; and peradventure my head will burn, and I shall have a giddiness every new moon. Cursed be the fire in which it was forged. Like the bite of a mad dog is the stroke of this poisoned iron.
Side 29 - To him without glory They would kill their piteous, wretched offspring With much wailing and peril, To pour their blood around Cromm Cruaich. "Milk and corn They would ask from him speedily In return for one-third of their healthy issue: Great was the horror and the scare of him.
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Side 331 - The eye of the trained hawk, the glance of the three-mewed falcon was not brighter than hers. Her bosom was more snowy than the breast of the white swan, her cheek was redder than the reddest roses.