Donnchadh Ó Corráin, Liam Breatnach, and Kim McCone, eds., Sages, Saints, and Storytellers: Celtic Studies in Honour of Professor James Carney. (Maynooth Monographs, 2.) Maynooth: An Sagart, 1989. Pp. xvi, 472; color frontispiece. IR £28.

Speculum ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 65 (03) ◽  
pp. 799
Keyword(s):  
Celtic Studies

scholarly journals Before the Celts: Cosmology, Landscape and Folklore in Neolithic Northwest Iberia

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-45
Author(s):  
Fabio Silva
Keyword(s):  
Iberian Peninsula ◽  
Bronze Age ◽  
Mountain Range ◽  
The West ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
Celtic Studies ◽  
The Bronze Age ◽  
Northwest Iberia

This paper applies a combined landscape and skyscape archaeology methodology to the study of megalithic passage graves in the North-west of the Iberian Peninsula, in an attempt to glimpse the cosmology of these Neolithic Iberians. The reconstructed narrative is found to be supported also by a toponym for a local mountain range and associated folklore, providing an interesting methodology that might be applied in future Celtic studies. The paper uses this data to comment on the ‘Celticization from the West’ hypothesis that posits Celticism originated in the European Atlantic façade during the Bronze Age. If this is the case, then the Megalithic phenomenon that was widespread along the Atlantic façade would have immediately preceded the first Celts.

Celtic Studies and European Folk-Tale Research

Béaloideas ◽  
1936 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 33
Author(s):  
John Th. Honti
Keyword(s):  
Folk Tale ◽  
Celtic Studies
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