These are books I recommend for anyone wanting to learn more about British Paganism, divided into the categories of Pagan Britain, Wales, and Arthurian Legend. You might also want to check out my video on books about the Celts in general, at http://youtu.be/PMq0a3wr4eM. The photo in the opening and closing cards is from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Romano-British_homestead_-_geograph.org.uk_-_275470.jpg. Pagan Britain: This covers the period in Britain before the rise of Christianity. This means the Romano-British period because we have so little evidence before then. Pagan Celtic Britain/Anne Ross Celtic Religion in Roman Britain/Graham Webster Shrines and Sacrifice/Ann Woodward Wales: In a way, "Welsh Paganism" is a meaningless term, because by the time the word "Welsh" becomes appropriate the country is Christian. I'm using it here to refer to material in Welsh that may contain stories from the pre-Christian era, or that may be useful to those wanting to create a Welsh form of Paganism. Trioedd Ynys Prydein/ed. and tr. Rachel Bromwich The Mabinogi and Other Medieval Welsh Tales/ed. and tr. Patrick K. Ford The Mabinogion/tr. Jeffrey Gantz A Celtic Miscellany/Kenneth Jackson The Celtic Heroic Age/ed. John T. Koch and John Carey Celtic Heritage/Alwyn Rees and Brinley Rees Arthur: The stories around Arthur contain some Pagan material, although it is hard to figure out what's what. Because there is so much on Arthur, I don't discuss all of the following in the video, but these are all texts I recommend. These are all primary sources, because there is little secondary sources that are easily available that I can recommend without reservation. I suggest grounding yourself in the primary sources before approaching the secondary ones. The Romance of Tristan/Beroul The Celtic Sources for the Arthurian Legend/Jon B. Coe and Simon Young Arthurian Romances (including Perceval)/Chrétien de Troyes The History of the Kings of Britain/Geoffrey of Monmouth Le Morte D'Arthur/Thomas Malory Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Sir Orfeo/tr. J. R. R. Tolkien Parzival/Wolfram von Eschenbach The Mabinogi(on) contains some Arthurian material as well. I didn't mention it, but this website: http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/preideu.html is a translation of Preiddeu Annwn. If you have any questions, please either comment or send me a pm. Check out the rest of my videos, and if you like what I'm doing, subscribe.

• published: 01 Jan 2014
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