Mythology of the British Isles
Geoffrey Ashe
A fully revised new paperback edition of Geoffrey Ashe's classic account of the legendary history and national mythology of Britain
Recounting stories and legends from the dark centuries of British prehistory to the ninth century AD - tales of giants and fairies, druids and saints, King Lear, King Arthur and Old King Cole - Ashe shows how they all interrelate and take on fresh significance from historical and archaelogical research. The origins and legends of the Giants, the Ancient Britons, the Picts, the Scots and the English are all explained with chronological finesse.
Organised into a clear and simple system based on Robert Graves' classic Greek Myths, Ashe describes the myth or theme first followed by discussion or analysis. This powerful and innovative work will be of equal value to the specialist and the casual reader. "Ashe tells the myths, traces their descent and looks for the historical realities behind. He does it so well that he neither deflates nor debunks. His reader will look at landscape and literature again with fresh eyes" - Tablet
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About Geoffrey Ashe Geoffrey Ashe is a writer and lecturer specialising in early British history and mythology, and in particular the legends of Glastonbury, where he lives. He is a member of the International Arthurian Society and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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