Folklore & Mythology
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-07-17 | Author:T. W. Rolleston

Then at last Cuchulain’s frenzy came upon him, and he dilated giant-like, till he overtopped Ferdia, and the hero-light blazed about his head. In close contact the two were interlocked, ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology June 6,2019 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-21 | Author:Bek-Pedersen, Karen [Bek-Pedersen, Karen]

3.4 Summary: Fate Comes from the Well In this chapter, answers have been sought to two major questions: what can be made of the stereotypical idea that there are three ...
( Category: European June 6,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-05-13 | Author:Robert Kirk

A succinct account of My Lord of Tarbat’s relations in a letter to the Honorable Robert Boyle, Esquire (of the predictions made by seers whereof himself was ear- and eyewitness) ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology June 6,2019 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2016-12-27 | Author:Artisson, Robin [Artisson, Robin]

Meyjar orðum skyli manngi trúa né þvís kveðr kona, þvít á hverfanda hvéli váru þeim hjörtu sköpuð, ok brigð í brjóst of lagið. Translated, word for word, and quite literally, ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology June 4,2019 )
azw |eng | 2007-03-31 | Author:Terry, Patricia & Rosenberg, Samuel N. [Terry, Patricia]

Then Gawain asked how it was that the Lady of the Lake had brought King Ban’s son to Arthur, and Lancelot told more than he had yet confided even to ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology May 28,2019 )
epub |eng | 2016-05-27 | Author:John Colarusso

38 ♦ AISHANA A son was born to Urizhmag, and like the rumble of thunder the news echoed around and reached the ears of the heavenly Shafa, the god of ...
epub, azw |eng | 2016-05-19 | Author:Tim Clarkson [Clarkson, Tim]

Gwenddolau: hero, villain or pagan? In the triad of the Three Fortunate Assassinations, the man-eating birds frequently seen as alluding to Gwenddolau’s paganism might merely reflect a hostile attitude towards ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology May 28,2019 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-18 | Author:Graham Phillips

Fig. 8.1. Locations discussed in the search for Merlin. Besides Uther Pendragon the early medieval romances also include Ambrosius Aurelius, the first author to interpolate him by that name in ...
( Category: Celtic May 28,2019 )
epub |eng | 2013-02-11 | Author:Barber, Elizabeth Wayland [Barber, Elizabeth Wayland]

CHAPTER 16 Koshchey the Deathless The Frog Princess (8 bis) Baba Yaga fed him, gave him to drink, and steamed him in a bath, and the tsarevich recounted to her ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology May 28,2019 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-02 | Author:Dowden, Ken, Livingstone, Niall & Niall Livingstone

CHAPTER SIXTEEN Myth and Death: Roman Mythological Sarcophagi Zahra Newby Myth and the Sarcophagus: The Question of Interpretation The sudden emergence in the second century AD of marble sarcophagi decorated ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical May 28,2019 )
epub |eng | 2017-03-31 | Author:Jaclyn Neel

c. Livy, From the Foundation 1.38 Livy's account of the conflict with Collatia, like his account of Apiolae in 5.4.1b, has been called into question. But the monuments he refers ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology May 28,2019 )
epub |eng | 2015-12-02 | Author:Lance Hightower [Hightower, Lance]

Chapter 7: The Heroes The stories of the heroes of Ancient Greece have been handed down orally and have been written about extensively in works by Homer, Hesiod and others, ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology May 28,2019 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-16 | Author:Ann Wroe [WROE, ANN]

Medieval theologians followed Orpheus into a lower world already licked by fire. As an enlightened soul – as Intellect itself – he had no business to be there, among small ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology May 27,2019 )
epub |eng | 2010-08-05 | Author:Tyldesley, Joyce [Tyldesley, Joyce]

THE DOOMED PRINCE Hathor could be one, but she could also be seven. As the sum of three (plurality) and four (totality), seven was itself a significant number. The Seven ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology May 27,2019 )
mobi |eng | 2011-08-31 | Author:Maxwell, Jordan & Tice, Paul & Snow, Alan [Maxwell, Jordan]

34. Two Fishes And they say unto him, We have here but five loaves, and two fishes. And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the grass, and took ...
( Category: Comparative Religion May 27,2019 )