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Western Reserve University

Librarp

317 h College for Women Of

WeStern

FLORENCE

Reserve

University,

HARKNESS

Cleveland, C.

BIBLICAL

LIBRARY

R ELIGIONS A N C I E N T

AND

MODERN

THE MYTHOLOGY OF ANCIENT BRITAIN AND IRELAND

RELIGIONS : ANCIENT AND MODERN. FooZscad 8vo. Price IS. net tier a uolume. ANIMISM. ‘ B y EDWARD C LODD, Author of T&z Sto?~ of Cwadion. I?ANTHEISM. B y JAMES ALLANSON P ICTON, Author of The Rdigion of the Universe.

THE RELIGIONS OF ANCIENT CHINA. By Professor GILZ, LL. D., Professor oi Chinese in the University of Cambridge. THE RELIGION OF ANCIENT GREECE. B y JANE HARRISON, Lecturer at Newnham College, Cambridge, Author of Prolegomena to Stz&y of Greek Religion. ISLAM IN INDIA. By T. W. ARNOI,D, Assistant Librarian at the India Office, Author of The Preachi?~g of Z&m. ISLAM. B y SYED AMEER ALI, M.A., C.I.E., late of H.M.‘s High Court of Judicature in Bengal, Author of The Spirit of Idam and The Bthics of Idavz.

MAGIC AND FETISHISM. By Dr. A. C. HADDON, F.R.S., Lecturer on Ethnology at Cambridge University. THE RELIGION OF ANCIENT EGYPT.

By Professor W. M. FLINDERS

PETRIE,

THE RELIGION OF BABYLONIA

F.R.S.

AND ASSYRIA.

B y THEOPHILUS G. PINCHES, late of the British Museum. B U D D H I S M . 2 ~01s. By Professor RHYS DAVIDS, LL.D., late Secretary of The Royal Asiatic Society. HINDUISM. By Dr. L. D. BARNIITT, of the Department of Oriental Printed Books and MSS., British Museum. SCANDINAVIAN

RELIGION.

B y WILLIAM A. CRAIGIE,

Dictionary. CELTIC RELIGION.

Joint Editor of the Oxfoord English

By Professor ANWYL, Professor of Welsh at University College, Aberystwyth. THE MYTHOLOGY OF ANCIENT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. By C HARLES S QUIRE, Author of The Mythology of tke Britisk zszaanas.

JUDAISM. B y ISRAEL ABRAIIAMS, Lecturer in Talmudic Literature in Cambridge University, Author of Jewish Life in the il4iddZe Azes. PRIMITIVE

0~ NICENE

C H R I S T I A NI TY .

By JOHN S UTHERLAND B LACK , LL.D.,

~ncyczop~ain

BiElicn.

Joint Editor of the

SHINTOISM.

MEDIAEVAL

ZOROASTRIANISM.

THE RELIGION OF ANCIENT ITALY. Other VoZumes

CHRISTIANITY.

to follow.

THE MYTHOLOGY OF ANCIENT BRITAIN AND IRELAND

BY

CHARLES SQUIRE AUTXOR OF

LONDON

ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE & C O LTD 16 JAMES STREET HAYMARKET

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Edinburgh: T. and A. CONSTADLE, Printers to His Majesty

FORE’WORD THIS little book does not profess in any way to

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supplement the volume upon Celtic Religion already contributed to this series. It merely aims at calling the attention of the general reader to the mythology of our own country, that as yet little-known store of Celtic tradition which reflects the religious conceptions of our earliest articulate Naturally, its limits compel the writer ancestors. to dogmatise, or, at most, to touch but very briefly upon disputed points, to ignore ma,ny fascinating side-issues, and to refrain from putting forward any suggestions of his own. But he has based his work upon the studies of the leading Celtic scholars, and he believes that the reader may safely accept it as in line with the latest research. c. s.

CONTENTS OfmF.

PdOE

I.

TEE CELTS

AND

THEIR &IYTHOLOQY,

II .

TXJE GODS

OF THE

CONTINENTAL CELTS,

OF

IRELAND, .

31

OF

BRITAIN , ,

42

THE HEROIC CYCLE OB A NCIENT ULSTER ,

54

THE FENIAN,

.

61

.

.

68

.

.

77

IV.

THE MYTHICAL HISTORY

OF THE

v . THE MYTHICAL

VIII .

9

.

14

THE GODS

VII .

1

.

III .

VI .

.

THE

OR

INSULAR C~ELTS,

HISTORY

OSSIANIC, SACAS,

A RTHURIAN

CHRONOLOOICAL

LEOEND,

S YLLABUS,

S ELECTED B O O K S BEARINQ

.

ON

. .

C E L T I C MYTEOLOGY,

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