Recommended Books

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Celtic Anthologies
These will have texts in more than one Celtic language.

• The Celtic Heroic Age. ed. John Carey.

• A Celtic Miscellany. ed. Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson

• Studies in early Celtic nature poetry. by Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson

• Myths and Legends of the British Isles. ed. Richard Barber.

• Legends of Arthur. ed. Richard Barber.




Irish

• Lebor Gabála Érenn: Book of the Taking of Ireland Part 1-5. ed. and tr. by R. A. S. Macalister. Dublin: Irish Texts Society, 1941.

• Auraicept Na N-Eces: The Scholar's Primer. ed. and trans. George Calder. Edinburgh, J. Grant, 1917.

• Death-Tales of the Ulster Heroes. ed. by Kuno Meyer.

• Silva Gadelica. ed. and trans. Standish Hayes O'Grady. 1892. reprint: NY: C. Lemma Publishing Corporation, 1970.




Irish (translation only)

• Ancient Irish Poetry, trans. Kuno Meyer.

• Medieval Irish Lyrics. trans. James Carney.

• Heroic Romances of Ireland vol.I & II. trans. and ed. by A.H. Leahy. London: David Nutt, 1906.

• The Tain. trans. Thomas Kinsella.

• The Tain. translated by Ciaran Carson. 2009.

• Tales of the Elders of Ireland. translated by Ann Dooley. 2008.




Welsh

• The Black book of Carmarthen. reproduced & ed. by J. Gwenogvryn Evans. Pwllheli, 1907.

• Taliesin. Facsimile & text of the Book of Taliesin v. 1 and 2. reproduced and edited by J. Gwenoyvryn Evans. Llanbedrog, N. Wales, 1910.

• Taliesin. Armes Prydein. ed. Ifor Williams.

• Trioedd ynys Prydein: the Welsh triads. edited with introd., translation, and commentary by Rachel Bromwich. Cardiff, University of Wales Press, 1961. new edition 2005.

• Pedeir Keinc y Mabinogi, edited by Ifor Williams. UWP.

• Brut y Tywysogion, or Chronicle of Princes: Red Book of Hergest Version, edited by Thomas Jones

• Brut y Tywysogion, or Chronicle of Princes: Peniarth MS 20 Version, edited by Thomas Jones.



Welsh (translation only)

• The Four Ancient Books of Wales. ed. William F. Skene. 1848.

• The Black Book of Carmarthen (selections). Merion Pennar.

• The Mabinogion. translated by Sioned Davies. 2008.

• The Mabinogi and Other Medieval Welsh Tales, translated by Patrick Ford.

• The Mabinogion, translated by Gwyn Jones & Thomas Jones

• The Mabinogion, translated by Jeffrey Gantz

• The Mabinogion, translated by Lady Charlotte Guest




Latin

• The Gallic War. by Julius Caesar. dual-language text.

• Saint Gildas. De excidio Britanniae and Other Works. (rare book)

• Geoffrey of Monmouth. Historia Regum Britannie.



Latin (translation only)

• Geoffrey of Monmouth. The History of the Kings of Britain. trans. Lewis Thorpe. NY: Penguin, 1977.

• Geoffrey of Monmouth. The Life of Merlin, ed. Basil Clarke.

• Gildas, Nennius, and Geoffrey. Six Old English Chronicles, ed. by J.A. Giles

• Giraldus Cambrensis. The Journey Through Wales and the Description of Wales. trans. Lewis Thorpe. NY: Penguin 1978.

• Giraldus Cambrensis. The History and Topography of Ireland. ed. and trans John O'Meara.




Secondary Sources; Scholarly Texts

• The Celtic Heroic Age. by Alwyn and Brinley Rees.

• Pagan Celtic Britain. by Anne Ross

• The Druids. by Stuart Piggot

• Folklore and myth in the Mabinogion, by William John Gruffydd

• Rhiannon, by William John Gruffydd

• Math vab Mathonwy, by William John Gruffydd