Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
List of Contributors
Introduction: Celtic Mythology in the 21st Century
Jonathan Wooding, Series Editor
Section 1: Myth and the Medieval
1. God and Gods in the Seventh Century: Tirechan on St Patrick and
King Loegaire's Daughters - Elizabeth A. Gray
2. Time, Identity and the Otherworld: A Note on The Wooing of Etain
- John Carey
3. The Celtic Dragon Myth Revisited - Joseph F. Nagy
4. Tory Island and Mount Errigal: Landscape Surrogates in Donegal
for the Gods Balor and Lug - Brian Lacey
Section 2: Comparative Mythology
5. Ireland as Mesocosm - Grigory Bondarenko
6. Hunting the Deer in Celtic and Indo-European Mythological
Contexts - Maxim Fomin
7. Gods, Poets and Entheogens: Ingesting Wisdom in Early Irish
Literary Sources - Sharon Paice MacLeod
8. The Armorican Voyage to the Afterlife and Celtic Myths - Fanch
Bihan-Gallic
Section 3: The New Cosmological Approach
9. Towards Adopting a Double Perspective on Celtic Mythology and
its Prehistoric Roots - Emily Lyle
10. Sisters' Sons in the Fourth Branch of the Mabinogi - Anna June
Page
11. Fashioners of the Cosmos in Ireland and India: The Dagda and
Tvastr - John Shaw
12. Psycho-Cosmology: Mental Mapping in Tain Bo Cuailgne - James
Carney
Bibliography
Index
It is aimed at an academic audience, but mythology exerts a strong attraction and the book can be expected to have some appeal to a wider readership.
"Celtic mythology, for long sidelined by mainstream scholarship, is making a comeback - but, like the material that it examines, it is returning in a shifted shape. In this volume, we find a wide range of methodological and theoretical approaches to the body of myth in Celtic languages. Structuralist approaches are reinvestigated and revived. Stories and beliefs are set within their contemporary literary and historical contexts, and wider international analogues are considered. This enterprising collection of essays resets the agenda for work on mythology in Celtic Studies."--Gregory Toner, Queen's University Belfast
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