Author : Joseph Jacobs Year of publication: 2009 Format: Paperback Signature: No First edition :No Condition: New Category: Childrens books Cost of book: £5.99 Price negotiable: No
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A reprint of the 1892 illustrated classic compiled and edited by Joseph Jacobs ISBN 9781907256059
Celtic folklore overflows with
vivid stories that fire the imagination. At the end of his highly successful English Fairy Tales, Joseph Jacobs compiled
Celtic Fairy Tales, a book of 26 stories
from around Wales and Ireland.
While some of the themes found in Celtic folklore are similar to those of contemporary
fairy tales, other stories in this collection are infused with a flavour that
is uniquely Celtic. In Jacobs’ own words, “The Celts went forth to battle, but
they always fell. Yet the captive Celt has enslaved his captor in the realm of
imagination.”
Celtic Fairy
Tales tells of horned women,
breweries of eggshells, sprightly tailors, gold and silver trees, King o’
Toole’s goose, sea maidens, and more. Of particular interest is the 13th
century legend of Beth Gellert, wherein the dog of Llewelyn (I)
the Great, Prince of Wales, protected the prince’s infant son from a wolf
attack. A memorial to the dog still stands today in the village
of Beddgelert, near Snowdon, Wales.
In an attempt to give a library of the Celts’ wealthy
imagination to his readers, Jacobs has attempted to begin the readers’
captivity with the earliest recordings of these tales. And captivate he does—Celtic Fairy Tales not only preserves a
cultural history, but also is richly entertaining.
We invite you to curl up with this unique sliver of Celtic
folklore not seen in print for over a century; immerse yourself in the tales and
fables of yesteryear.
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