Mythology of the British Isles

by Geoffrey Ashe (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1990

  $12.55

  This book is planned on the pattern of Robert Graves's Greek Myths and Hebrew Myths . Each section deals with its topic first as presented in legend or story-telling or speculation. Then a commentary discusses the sources, the facts, the underlying ideas, the rehandling in subsequent writing. The time-span of the survey extends from prehistory to the 9th century AD. Geoffrey Ashe has also written King Arthur's Avalon - The Story of Glastonbury , Avalonian Quest and The Ancient Wisdom .

• Used

  Paperback
  2002

  $3.45

  Recounting stories and legends from the dark centuries of British prehistory to the 9th century AD - tales of giants and fairies, druids and saints, King Lear, King Arthur and Old King Cole - Ashe shows how they all interrelate and take on fresh significance from historical and archaelogical research. The origins and legends of the Giants, the Ancient Britons, the Picts, the Scots and the English are all explained, in a work aimed at both the specialist and the casual reader. Organised into a simple system based on Robert Graves' classic Greek Myths , Ashe describes the myth or theme first followed by discussion or analysis.