The Mythology of the British Islands / An Introduction to Celtic Myth, Legend, Poetry, and Romance

by Charles Squire

BRITISH MYTHOLOGY

Ivor B. John.—The Mabinogion. No. 11 of “Popular Studies in Mythology, Romance, and Folklore”. London, 1901.

A pamphlet introduction to the Mabinogion literature.

Lady Charlotte Guest.—The Mabinogion. From the Welsh of the Llyfr Coch o Hergest (the Red Book of Hergest) in the library of Jesus College, Oxford. Translated, with notes, by Lady Charlotte Guest.

First edition.	Text, translation, and notes, 3 vols., 1849.
	Translation and notes only, 1 vol., 1877.
	The Boys’ Mabinogion, 1881.

Cheap editions of this classic have been lately issued. One may obtain it in Mr. Nutt’s handsome little volume; as one of Dent’s “Temple Classics”; or in the “Welsh Library”.

J. Loth.—Les Mabinogion, traduits en entier pour la première fois en français avec un commentaire explicatif et des notes critiques. 2 vols. Vols. III and IV of De Jubainville’s “Cours de Littérature celtique”. Paris, 1889.

A more exact translation than that of Lady Guest, with notes embodying more recent scholarship.

J. A. Giles, D.C.L.—Old English Chronicles, including ... Geoffrey of Monmouth’s British History, Gildas, Nennius ... Edited, with illustrative notes, by J. A. Giles, D.C.L. “Bohn’s Antiquarian Library”. London, 1901.

The most accessible edition of Geoffrey of Monmouth.

Sir Thomas Malory.—The Morte Darthur. Edited by Dr. H. Oskar Sommer. Vol. I—the Text. Vol. II—Glossary, Index, &c. Vol. III—Study on the Sources. London, 1889-1891.

Vol. I of this, the best text of the Morte Darthur, can be obtained separately.

Jessie L. Weston.—King Arthur and his Knights. A survey of Arthurian romance. No. 4 of “Popular Studies in Mythology, Romance, and Folklore”. London, 1899.

Alfred Nutt.—The Legends of the Holy Grail. No. 14 of “Popular Studies in Mythology, Romance, and Folklore”. London, 1902.

Useful introductions to a more special study of Arthurian literature.