Gods, Heroes, and Kings: The Battle for Mythic Britain
Christopher R. Fee, "Gods, Heroes, and Kings: The Battle for Mythic Britain"
English | ISBN: 0195134796 | 2001 | 256 pages | PDF | 1396 KB
English | ISBN: 0195134796 | 2001 | 256 pages | PDF | 1396 KB
The islands of Britain have been a crossroads of gods, heroes, and kings-those of flesh as well as those of myth-for thousands of years. Successive waves of invasion brought distinctive legends, rites, and beliefs. The ancient Celts displaced earlier indigenous peoples, only to find themselves
displaced in turn by the Romans, who then abandoned the islands to Germanic tribes, a people themselves nearly overcome in time by an influx of Scandinavians. With each wave of invaders came a battle for the mythic mind of the Isles as the newcomer's belief system met with the existing systems of
gods, legends, and myths.
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