Folk-tales of the British Isles

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Kevin Crossley-Holland
Pantheon Books, 1988 - Social Science - 393 pages
A superb collection of folklore from the British Isles that celebrates storytelling, culled from great 19th- and 20th-century collections. It is a first-of-a-kind anthology including stories from English, Celtic and Norse traditions. Illustrated.

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Contents

Origin of the Welsh Wales P H Emerson
93
Fior Usga Ireland Thomas Crofton Croker
100
KINGS AND HEROES
109
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About the author (1988)

Kevin Crossley-Holland is a well-known poet, a prize-winning children's author, and a translator. Crossley-Holland has translated Beowulf and The Exeter Book of Riddles from the Anglo-Saxon. He has collaborated with composers Nicola Lefanu (The Green Children and The Wildman), Rupert Bawden (The Sailor's Tale), Sir Arthur Bliss, William Mathias, and Stephen Paulus. Crossley-Holland's book The Seeing Stone won the Guardian Children's Fiction Award, the Smarties Prize Bronze Medal, and the Tir na n-Og Award. The trilogy has won critical acclaim and been translated into twenty-five languages. His recent and forthcoming books are The Hidden Roads: A Memoir of Childhood, Bracelet of Bones and his new and selected poems The Mountains of Norfolk. Crossley-Holland often lectures abroad on behalf of the British Council and offers poetry and prose workshops and talks on the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings, King Arthur, heroines and heroes, and myth, legend and folk-tale. Kevin Crossley-Holland is an Honorary Fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford, a patron of the Society for Storytelling, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He lives on the north Norfolk coast in East Anglia with his wife and children.

Bibliographic information

TitleFolk-tales of the British Isles
Pantheon fairy tale & folklore library
EditorKevin Crossley-Holland
ContributorKevin Crossley-Holland
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherPantheon Books, 1988
ISBN0394755537, 9780394755533
Length393 pages
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Social Science / Folklore & Mythology
  
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