
Celtic Folklore 2 Volume Set
Welsh and Manx
John Rhys(Author)
Cambridge University Press
Published on 2. June 2016
Book
782 pages
978-1-108-07910-5 (ISBN)
Description
John Rhys (1840-1915), the son of a Welsh farmer, studied at Oxford and in Germany, and became the first professor of Celtic languages at Oxford in 1877. His research ranged across the fields of linguistics, history, archaeology, ethnology and religion, and his many publications were instrumental in establishing the field of Celtic studies. This two-volume work, published in 1901, had its beginnings in the late 1870s, when Rhys began collecting Welsh folk tales. His entertaining preface sheds light on folklore fieldwork and its difficulties, including fragmentary evidence, alteration of stories by those interviewed, and the hostility of the religious and educational establishment to 'superstition'. For each text, Rhys provides fascinating information about his sources, and an English translation. He analyses possible origins for the tales, in imagination and myth, and in early British history, and compares them with legends from elsewhere in the British Isles.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 215 mm
Width: 141 mm
Thickness: 45 mm
Weight
1030 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-108-07910-5 (9781108079105)
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Content
Volume 1: Preface; Geographical list of authorities; List of bibliographical references; 1. Undine's Kymric sisters; 2. The fairies' revenge; 3. Fairy ways and words; 4. Manx folklore; 5. The Fenodyree and his friends; 6. The folklore of the wells. Volume 2: 7. Triumphs of the water-world; 8. Welsh cave legends; 9. Place-name stories; 10. Difficulties of the folklorist; 11. Folklore philosophy; 12. Race in folklore and myth; Additions and corrections; Index.