T. W. Rolleston 
Celtic Myths and Legends (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading) 

Celtic origins, heroes, and stories spring to life in T. W. Rolleston’s classic work, Celtic Myths and Legends.   Spanning thousands of years and across thousands of miles, these myths and legends offer a glimpse into worlds long gone that continue to influence modern culture. 

The book includes classical accounts of Celtic tribes in Europe that describe their lives, the ancient gods and world of nature that they worshiped during and after their migrations to Britain and Ireland.  Rolleston also retells stories from the three major cycles of Irish legend and from the ancient Welsh corpus, interspersing these with erudite commentary that aids comprehension of this vast ancient world and its surviving literature. 

Circa l’autore

Poet and scholar
Thomas William Hazen Rolleston was born in 1857, when the effects of Ireland’s Great Famine were still palpable and the Irish diaspora was in full force. While at Trinity College, Dublin, he won the Vice Chancellor’s Prize for English Verse.  Later, he lived abroad working as a successful journalist and linguistic scholar in both Germany and London.  Rolleston is remembered as a leader of the Irish Literary Revival movement, as an expert translator of Greek and German, and as a prolific scholar,