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Most people have heard about the Celts - the elusive, traditional tribal people who resided in present-day England, Ireland, Scotland and France. Paradoxically characterized as both barbaric and innocent, the Celts appeal to the modern world as symbolic of a bygone era, a world destroyed by the ambition of empire and the get spread around of Christianity throughout Western Europe. Despite the pervasive ethnical and literary impact of the Celts, shockingly little is well known of their life-style and values, because very few records of these stories exist. In this book, for the very first time, Philip Freeman brings together the best reviews of Celtic mythology. Everyone today knows about the gods and heroes of the traditional Greeks, such as Zeus, Hera, and Hercules, but just how many people have heard about the Gaulish god Lugus or the magical Welsh queen Rhiannon or the great Irish warrior Cú Chulainn? We still joy to the storyplot of the Trojan Conflict, but the epic fights of the Irish Táin Bó Cuailgne are known and then a few. And yet those people who have read the reviews of Celtic myth and legend - included in this writers like J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis - have been deeply moved and influenced by these amazing tales, for there is nothing on the globe quite like them. In these reviews a strange and invisible realm of gods and spirits is available alongside and sometimes crosses over into our very own human world; fierce women warriors struggle with kings and heroes, and even the rules of the time and space can be suspended. Captured in vivid prose these shadowy information - gods, goddesses, and heroes - become more active for the present day listener.
