Celtic Legends
Cú Chulainn
The Hound of Ulster who defended a province alone: birth in Compert Con Culainn, glory in the Táin (Lebor na hUidre c.1100),…
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Celtic Legends
The Wild Hunt
The spectral riders are a pan-European motif — Germanic, Norse, Welsh, English and French — not one Celtic myth. Who leads the…
Celtic Legends
The Morrígan
The Irish goddess of sovereignty, war and prophecy — as she appears in Cath Maige Tuired and the Táin — kept distinct…
Celtic Legends
Samhain: What It Actually Was
Separating the medieval Irish evidence for Samhain from the Christian Halloween lineage and the 20th-century neopagan Wheel of the Year — carefully…
Celtic Legends
The Wolf in Irish and Norse Tradition
Two traditions, not one: the Irish wolf (mac tíre, the Ossory werewolves of Gerald of Wales, c.1188) kept distinct from the Norse…