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Legends and Sagas Celtic Folklore
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England |
This section has texts about the folklore and legends of England and other resources at sacred-texts about the British Isles.
Folklore
The English and Scottish Popular Ballads by Francis James Child [1882-1898].This is the motherlode of ballad collections, including many variations on each ballad.
Robin Hood by Paul Creswick, Illustrations by N.C. Wyeth [1902]
A Book of Old English Ballads Illustrations by George Wharton Edwards, Introduction by Hamilton W. Mabie [1896]
The Origins of Popular Superstitions and Customs by T. Sharper Knowlson [1910].
This discusses mostly superstitions and customs of England.
Popular Romances of the West of England by Robert Hunt [1903]. [PB]
English Fairy and Other Folk Tales by Edwin Sidney Hartland, Illustrated by C.E. Brock [1890] [PB]
English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs, Illustrated by John D. Batten [1890] [PB]
More English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs, Illustrated by John D. Batten [1894] [PB]
Fairies
The Coming of the Fairies by Arthur Conan Doyle [1922]
A study of the famous Cottingley fairy photographs,
by the creator of Sherlock Holmes.
Tales of the Dartmoor Pixies by William Crossing [1890]. [PB]
A Peep at the Pixies, or Legends of the
West by Anna Eliza Bray, Illustrated by
Hablot
K. Browne [1854] [BP]
Ley Lines
Early British Trackways, Moats, Mounds, Camps and Sites by Alfred Watkins [1922]The seminal book about Ley Lines.
Anglo Saxon
The Complete Corpus of Anglo-Saxon PoetryBeowulf (Modern English)
Beowulf (Anglo-Saxon) 262,705 bytes
The archetypal monster story...
Literature
The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser [1596]Stories from the Faerie Queene by Mary Macleod [1916]
Arthurian
The matter of Arthur is not one text but a series of layered retellings of the same story, which stretches in an unbroken chain from Malory to Monty Python. Here are some of the most important texts of the Arthurian canon.
Le Morte d'Arthur by Sir Thomas MaloryThe Mabinogion Lady Charlotte Guest, tr. [1877]
The Mabinogion is a group of Welsh tales, many of which are set in the court of King Arthur.
Cliges by Chretien DeTroyes
Erec et Enide by Chretien DeTroyes
The High History of the Holy Graal by Anonymous, based on Chretien DeTroyes.
From Ritual To Romance by Jessie L. Weston [1920].
This academic study of the roots of the Grail legend in the ancient Mystery initiations is a classic in its own right.
The Idylls of the King by Alfred Lord Tennyson
King Arthur: Tales of the Round Table by Andrew Lang; Illustrations by H.J. Ford. [1902]
An abridged version of the Arthur narrative by famous folklorist Andrew Lang; for 'children of all ages'.
The Champions of the Round Table Written and Illustrated by Howard Pyle [1905]
The legends of Sir Lancelot, Sir Tristram, and Sir Percival.
The Vita Merlini by Geoffrey of Monmouth; tr. John Jay Parry [1925, copyright not renewed]