Irish Myths and Legends (1 Viewer)

[nEiLo]

Anyone recommend a book?

 

[Mitchum]

Jeffrey Gantz 'Irish Myths & Sagas'.

It's one of the Penguin Classics.

 

[Milker]

Bard by Morgan Llywelyn
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bard:_The_Odyssey_Of_the_Irish

On Ravens Wing by Morgan Llywelyn
http://www.trademe.co.nz/Books/Fict...ction-fantasy/Author-JL/auction-162617028.htm

And the best tho not really myth but histlegend..
Lion of Ireland by....Morgan Llywelyn, of course
http://www.ciao.co.uk/Lion_of_Ireland_Morgan_Llywelyn__5287555

all savage reads...do yourself a favour

 

[Lefty Frizzell]

You gotta do something about that jfk avatar milker

 

[Scientician 0.8]

Just noticed that. A wee bit ghoulish.

 

[Milker]

(goddam conspiracy, man)

Rest in peace, dead kennedy avatar

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[RED(tape)MENACE]

Just listen to the Spook record.

 

[Lili Marlene]

http://www.lugodoc.demon.co.uk/MYTH/MYTH01.HTM

this guy has a great summary, written with, *shock*, a sense of humour!!

 

[george mcfly]

alright, so Slaine isn't real, but this is an awesome read with a lot of elements of Irish mythology

 

[i lost my mind]

This is suposed to be good although i havent read it myself-yet

'Forbhais Droma Dámhgháire- The Siege of Knocklong' by Seán Ó Duinn ISBN 1-85635-0215

It apears in the "book of lismore" 15th centuary which interestingly also contains a traslation of Marco Polos book.
The story is mentioned earlier though in the "book of leinster"
12 centuary in the "list of tales"

So says wikepedia which also says Mog lived on such and such iland off kerry and and had a flying machine!

"He wore a hornless bull-hide and a bird mask, and flew in a machine called the roth rámach, the "oared wheel". He had an ox-driven chariot in which night was as bright as day, a star-speckled black shield with a silver rim, and a stone which could turn into a poisonous ell when trown into water"

It also says he had a daughter called Tlachtga
Who lived somewhere between tara and loughcew in oldcastle (another one!) http://www.knowth.com/hill-of-ward.htm


What about W B Yeats or his freind Lady Grgeory they both collected storys thruogh out ireland and Yeats often wrote about some history figurs in his poems. His ending books suposed to be his best.

 

[Duncan_Thaw]