The history and the culture of the Celtic peoples from pre-history to the Norman invasion.
Nora Chadwick Knihy
Nora Kershaw Chadwick byla přední badatelkou keltské a ústní literatury. Její práce se hluboce zabývala podstatou těchto starověkých tradic. Chadwick analyzovala způsoby, jakými byly příběhy a mýty předávány z generace na generaci. Její analýzy nabízejí cenný vhled do světa rané evropské literární kultury.
The appearance of Nora Chadwick's book The Celts a quarter of a century ago was a milestone in Celtic Studies. It marked the culmination of a lifetime's study by one of our greatest Celtic scholars, a distillation of knowledge and wisdom presented with consummate ease to delight and inform fellow scholars and the general reader alike. It was then, and is still, a masterpiece and we are all indebted to its publishers for keeping the work in print. Nora Chadwick had an encyclopedic knowledge of the Celtic world but her particular interest lay in the later period when Celtic culture was restricted to the islands of Britain and Ireland and the peninsula of Brittany. For those of us approaching the Celts from the depths of prehistory this was the Celtic twilight, but in the hands of Nora Chadwick the twilight became an Indian summer - a period which saw a remarkable cultural flowering, with echoes reverberating deep from the past yet a distinct phenomenon with quality and energy of its own
Stories and Ballads of the far Past
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Excerpt from Stories and Ballads of the Far Past: Translated From the Norse (Icelandic and Faroese) With Introductions and Notes In accordance with general custom in works of this kind I have discarded, the use of accents, un familiar symbols, etc., except in a few Norse words which can hardly be anglicised. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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