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Jeffrey Gantz
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This is a fun collection of Irish pagan Celtic tales translated from the original. Readers unfamiliar with this type of material will probably be struck by the lack of care for modern narrative rules. Those who have read similar tales elsewhere will be familiar with the differing conventions, such a...
Julian Meynell's Books
Julian Meynell's Books rated it 9 years ago
This is a hard book to rate. The stories contained with in it are often poorly written and confused, but this is not really the translator's fault. Instead, what we have here are traditional myths and folktales that have been written down very poorly by people of no talent and indifferent commitme...
tinasimms
tinasimms rated it 12 years ago
This is a very old series of legends. In fact, many of the stories have inconsistencies and some of the stories break off and end without explanation. (Even the footnotes admit that they are missing information.) While that is not the fault of the editors of the book (they can't just make up the end...
An Leughadair
An Leughadair rated it 14 years ago
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this collection of tales from Irish Myths as put together by Jeffrey Gantz. I found the introductions really helpful, too.
NinthWanderer
NinthWanderer rated it 16 years ago
Welsh myths that provided the basis for some of the later Arthur stories.
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