This book is unprecedented in its attempt to reconstruct the early Welsh poetry of the Book of Aneirin's version of the Dark Age epic Gododdin. John Koch investigates the historical context, and the process of transmission, between the seventh century poem and the thirteenth century text, seeking to restore the text to its original form. A substantial historical introduction is followed by the centrepiece of the book, a newly reconstructd text. This differs from earlier editions in that the system adopted allows the separation of original material from later modifications. English translation and extensive notes are also included.

The Gododdin of Aneirin: Text and Context from Dark-Age North Britain

Literature & Fiction

Koch,John T

Poetry

Celtic Studies Publications

The Celtic Heroic Age (Celtic Studies Publications)

A new edition of an invaluable collection of literary sources, all in translation, for Celtic Europe and early Ireland and Wales. The selections are divided into three sections: the first is classical authors on the ancient celts-a huge selection including both the well-known-Herodotos, Plato, Aristotle, Livy, Diogenes Laertius, and Cicero-and the obscure-Pseudo-Scymnus, Lampridius, Vopsicus, Clement of Alexandria and Ptolemy I. The second is early Irish and Hiberno-Latin sources including early Irish dynastic poetry and numerous tales from the Ulster cycle and the third consists of Brittonic sources, mostly Welsh.

History

Ancient Civilizations

Europe

This succinct, accessible two-volume set covers all aspects of Celtic historical life, from prehistory to the present day.
 • A helpful subject index
• A comprehensive chronology traces the evolution of Celtic culture over time and across regions
• A–Z entries allow for easy location of material
• A current print and nonprint bibliography of the most essential and accessible resources in English

The Celts [2 volumes]: History, Life, and Culture [2 volumes]

Minard, Antone

ABC-CLIO

An Atlas for Celtic Studies is a unique and comprehensive reference book that presents a huge amount of information on what is known about the Celts in Europe in the form of detailed maps. It combines thousands of Celtic place- and group names, as well as Celtic inscriptions and other mappable linguistic evidence. Moving away from a narrative story of the Celts, the aim of this ground-breaking publication is to empower the reader with a wide range of evidence, lucidly presented, to show the geographic relationship of Celtic-language and non-linguistic cultural evidence, allowing individual interpretation. The Atlas has 64 large format pages of colour maps alongside pages of explanatory text, theoretical discussion, map details, bibliography, and index. This will be an essential work for anyone studying the Celts.

An Atlas for Celtic Studies: Archaeology and Names in Ancient Europe and Early Medieval Ireland, Britain and Brittany (Celtic Studies Publications)

Celtic Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia

Reference

An exploration of the links between the languages, cultures and traditions of the Celtic peoples of Ireland and Britain through an analysis of literary sources, place or people names and the Gaelic language. Twenty-six English, Gaelic or French essays, include extracts from Celtic texts, accompanied by detailed commentaries, and comparisons between these three main areas of influence.

Ildanach Ildirech. A Festschrift for Proinsias Mac Cana

Lambert, Pierre-Yves

Carey, John.

Classics

A new fourth edition of an invaluable collection of literary sources, all in translation, for Celtic Europe and early Ireland and Wales. The selections are divided into three sections: the first is classical authors on the ancient celts - a huge selection including both the well known Herodotos, Plato, Aristotle, Livy, Diogenes Laertius, and Cicero - and the obscure-Pseudo-Scymnus, Lampridius, Vopsicus, Clement of Alexandria and Ptolemy I. The second is early Irish and Hiberno-Latin sources including early Irish dynastic poetry and numerous tales from the Ulster cycle and the third consists of Brittonic sources, mostly Welsh. This edition includes three new early Irish tales, translated by Máirín Ní Dhonnchadha: The Birth of Aed Sláine; Fingal Rónáin, and the Story of Mis and Dubh Rois.

The Celtic Heroic Age (Celtic Studies Publications) (Old Irish Edition)

British & Irish

Beyond the Aegean, some of the earliest written records of Europe come from the south-west, what is now southern Portugal and south-west Spain. Herodotus, the 'Father of History', locates the Keltoi or 'Celts' in this region, as neighbours of the Kunetes of the Algarve. He calls the latter the 'westernmost people of Europe'. However, modern scholars have been disinclined - until recently - to consider the possibility that the south-western inscriptions and other early linguistic evidence from the kingdom of Tartessos were Celtic. This book shows how much of this material closely resembles the attested Celtic languages: Celtiberian (spoken in east-central Spain) and Gaulish, as well as the longer surviving languages of Ireland, Britain, and Brittany. In many cases, the 85 Tartessian inscriptions of the period c.750-c.450 BC can now be read as complete statements written in an Ancient Celtic language.

Tartessian: Celtic in the South-west at the Dawn of History (Celtic Studies Publications)

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The Gododdin of Aneirin: Text and Context from Dark-Age North Britain

The Celtic Heroic Age (Celtic Studies Publications)

The Gododdin of Aneirin: Text and Context from Dark-Age North Britain

The Celts [2 volumes]: History, Life, and Culture [2 volumes]

An Atlas for Celtic Studies: Archaeology and Names in Ancient Europe and Early Medieval Ireland, Britain and Brittany (Celtic Studies Publications)

Celtic Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia

Ildanach Ildirech. A Festschrift for Proinsias Mac Cana

The Celtic Heroic Age (Celtic Studies Publications)

The Celtic Heroic Age (Celtic Studies Publications) (Old Irish Edition)

Tartessian: Celtic in the South-west at the Dawn of History (Celtic Studies Publications)