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Tabletop RPGs and story games rooted in folklore
Tabletop RPGs genuinely rooted in folklore — Vaesen, Dolmenwood, Pendragon and Wanderhome — which engage a real tradition, and which just borrow…
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Folklore-rooted fiction, the right editions and translations of primary sources, mythology non-fiction and folk-inspired indie games.
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Folklore scholarship for the serious reader
Real folklore scholarship you can actually read — Mac Cana, Hutton, Briggs, Simpson and Roud, Purkiss — and how to tell genuine…
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Folklore in poetry: from the medieval to the modern
Folklore as poetry, medieval to modern: Heaney's Sweeney Astray, Kinsella's Táin, Ní Dhomhnaill and Armitage — a faithful text versus a living…
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Folklore for younger readers: children’s and YA done right
Children's and YA folklore that keeps the shadow and admits it is retelling — from Marie Heaney's illustrated Irish myth to Frances…
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Scottish folklore and myth: books worth reading
The Scottish folklore shelf worth owning — from J. F. Campbell's tales to Henderson and Cowan's history — and why Carmina Gadelica…
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Welsh mythology beyond the Mabinogi: a reading guide
Past the Four Branches: an honest guide to reading Taliesin, the Welsh Triads and Culhwch and Olwen — which editions are for…
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Indie games that draw on folklore — and get it right (or don’t)
From Inupiat storytelling in Never Alone to Swedish year-walking in Year Walk: indie games that treat folklore as a source to honour,…
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Folk-horror and folklore fiction worth your shelf
Six novels that use British and Irish folklore with real care, from a Mabinogi retelling to selkie fiction, with an honest note…
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Reading the four cycles of Irish myth: a path through the primary sources
The Mythological, Ulster, Fenian and Kings cycles, explained: which translations actually read well, and the order to tackle the primary sources without…
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The best Irish mythology non-fiction: where to actually start
New to Irish myth and drowning in lookalike 'Celtic' titles? A frank, in-print starting shelf, from Marie Heaney's retellings to Mark Williams's…