Celtic Myths: From King Arthur and Deirdre to the Fairies and Druids

This book is an illustrated guide to the world of Irish and Welsh myths—the world of gods and heroes, magic and monsters. You’ll get acquainted with the most significant works, key characters, plots, and motifs of Celtic mythology. On this journey you’ll meet spirits and druids, talking animals, and magical trees.

Fragments of texts, photographs of archaeological finds, and other documentary evidence bring a distant era closer and make it easier to understand.

Miranda Aldhouse-Green is a British archaeologist and scholar, president of the Prehistoric Society of Great Britain. From 2006 to 2013 she was a professor of archaeology at Cardiff University, one of the oldest in Wales, and now holds the title “Professor Emerita.” Miranda Aldhouse-Green’s research on Celtic culture was recognized as one of the “100 main discoveries, developments, and inventions” made in the last 50 years in the UK.