item: #1 of 20
          id: 10459
      author: Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)
       title: The Celtic Twilight
        date: None
       words: 40123
      flesch: 82
     summary: There were fine passages in all, but these were often embedded in thoughts which have evidently a special value to his mind, but are to other men the counters of an unknown coinage. These two men were of the size of living men, but the others were small.
    keywords: children; day; door; faeries; faery; fire; friend; god; good; great; hair; house; jack; life; little; man; men; mind; mother; night; people; place; round; saw; tell; things; time; way; white; woman; world; years
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        item: #2 of 20
          id: 14391
      author: None
       title: The Cattle-Raid of Cualnge (Tain Bo Cualnge) : An Old Irish Prose-Epic
        date: None
       words: 43089
      flesch: 90
     summary: 'Cuchulainn Mac Sualtaim, sister's son to Conchobar,' said Cuchulainn; 'and avoid me,' said he. Then they begin to wrestle for a long time, and Mand overthrows Cuchulainn thrice, so that the charioteer urged him.
    keywords: ailill; arms; ath; battle; boys; camp; chariot; charioteer; combat; conchobar; cuchulainn; day; diad; fergus; ford; gold; hair; hand; head; horses; host; ireland; mac; man; medb; men; night; note; red; round; shield; spear; sword; ulstermen; warrior; white
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        item: #3 of 20
          id: 14465
      author: Gregory, Lady
       title: Gods and Fighting Men The story of the Tuatha de Danaan and of the Fianna of Ireland, arranged and put into English by Lady Gregory
        date: None
       words: 173049
      flesch: 84
     summary: These gods are indeed more wise and beautiful than men; but men, when they are great men, are stronger than they are, for men are, as it were, the foaming tide-line of their sea. And it would be too long to tell, and it would tire the hearers, how many good men were killed on each side.
    keywords: angus; bade; battle; bran; bring; caoilte; coming; conan; country; danaan; daughter; day; death; diarmuid; end; father; fianna; finn; going; gold; goll; good; grania; great; grief; hand; head; hill; hounds; house; ireland; king; know; leave; left; like; love; lugh; man; men; mind; music; night; oisin; osgar; people; place; plain; red; rose; sea; set; sidhe; slieve; son; sons; spear; teamhair; thing; time; time finn; tuatha; way; white; wife; woman; world
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        item: #4 of 20
          id: 14672
      author: MacCulloch, J. A. (John Arnott)
       title: The Religion of the Ancient Celts
        date: None
       words: 133190
      flesch: 75
     summary: But examination proves that only a few are directly parallel in name with Irish divinities, and while here there are fundamental likenesses, the _incidents_ with Irish parallels may be due to mere superficial borrowings, to that interchange of _Märchen_ and mythical _données_ which has everywhere occurred. [9] Broca, _Mem. d'Anthrop._ i. 370 ff.
    keywords: account; animal; battle; belief; bran; britain; bull; cases; celtic; celts; century; character; christian; corn; cult; custom; cæsar; cúchulainn; d'arbois; danann; day; dead; death; divinities; divinity; druids; e.g.; earth; elysium; fact; father; fertility; festival; fionn; fire; folk; form; gaul; god; goddess; goddesses; gods; growth; heroes; holder; human; idea; iii; images; infra; ireland; irish; island; joyce; king; life; local; lore; loth; lug; magic; manannan; men; mother; myth; names; native; nature; new; pagan; people; place; point; power; reinach; religion; rh[^y]s; rites; ritual; river; roman; sacred; sacrifice; saga; sea; slain; son; spirit; stokes; story; strabo; sun; tales; thought; time; tree; tuatha; vegetation; victims; war; water; welsh; wife; women; words; world; worship; xii; year
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        item: #5 of 20
          id: 14749
      author: Rolleston, T. W. (Thomas William)
       title: The High Deeds of Finn and other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland
        date: None
       words: 72361
      flesch: 79
     summary: Said Finn to Conan, I have never seen thee do horseboy's service even to far better men than this gillie. But Fithel said, Nay, thou art too apt to blame the pleadings of other men; plead for thyself.
    keywords: art; battle; brian; children; cormac; day; death; erinn; fairy; father; fergus; fianna; finn; folk; gold; hand; head; hill; ireland; irish; iubdan; king; life; lir; love; lugh; man; men; night; oisín; people; place; red; sea; set; son; sons; story; sword; tales; tara; tell; thee; thou; thy; time; turenn; ulster; white; wife; world; youth
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        item: #6 of 20
          id: 16464
      author: None
       title: The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúalnge
        date: None
       words: 128560
      flesch: 92
     summary: Too much, my lad, said Ferdiad, dost thou praise Cuchulain, for not a reward has he given thee for praising,[1] but it is time to fetch help. Thou art confused in thy counting, O Laeg, my master, quoth Cuchulain.
    keywords: add; ailill; answer; arms; art; ath; battle; blood; boy; brown; bull; camp; cast; cethern; chariot; charioteer; combat; company; conchobar; connacht; county; cruachan; cualnge; cuchulain; day; deeds; east; emain; end; erin; fair; fall; ferdiad; fergus; fight; ford; gilla; gold; good; great; ground; hair; hand; hath; head; hero; hill; horses; host; hound; irish; king; know; lad; laeg; land; left; like; little; lugaid; macroth; man; master; meath; medb; meet; men; morrow; near; north; page; people; place; plain; provinces; quoth; reading; red; river; set; shield; skin; slane; son; sons; south; spake; spear; stowe; sword; thee; thine; thou; thrice; thy; time; táin; ulster; ulstermen; warrior; way; white; women; ybl; yonder; youths
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        item: #7 of 20
          id: 18041
      author: Anwyl, E. (Edward)
       title: Celtic Religion in Pre-Christian Times
        date: None
       words: 14414
      flesch: 56
     summary: Transcribed from the 1906 Archibald Constable & Co. Ltd. edition by David Price, ccx074@coventry.ac.uk CELTIC RELIGION IN PRE-CHRISTIAN TIMES By EDWARD ANWYL, M.A. LATE CLASSICAL SCHOLAR OF ORIEL COLLEGE, OXFORD PROFESSOR OF WELSH AND COMPARATIVE PHILOLOGY AT THE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF WALES, ABERYSTWYTH ACTING-CHAIRMAN OF THE CENTRAL WELSH BOARD FOR INTERMEDIATE EDUCATION LONDON ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE & CO LTD 16 JAMES STREET HAYMARKET 1906 Edinburgh: T. and A. CONSTABLE, Printers to His Majesty FOREWORD It is only as prehistoric archaeology has come to throw more and more light on the early civilisations of Celtic lands that it has become possible to interpret Celtic religion from a thoroughly modern viewpoint.
    keywords: aryan; britain; caesar; celtic; civilisation; deities; development; druids; earth; gaul; god; ideas; life; man; men; names; religion; thought; time; welsh; world
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        item: #8 of 20
          id: 19959
      author: None
       title: The Mabinogion Vol. 1
        date: None
       words: 34617
      flesch: 86
     summary: And thou shalt take a horse and armour of me; and with me thou shalt go to learn chivalry and the use of thy arms. Said Peredur, Thou shalt have mercy, if thou pledge thy faith thou wilt never more injure the dominions of the Countess. Said Owain the son of Urien, This youth will never come into the Court until Kai has gone forth from it.
    keywords: arthur; behold; black; castle; countess; court; day; horse; kai; knight; lord; maiden; man; men; owain; peredur; son; thee; thou; wilt; yellow; youth
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        item: #9 of 20
          id: 19973
      author: None
       title: The Mabinogion Vol. 2
        date: None
       words: 37553
      flesch: 87
     summary: Said Geraint, I have spoken with men of equal rank with him. Said Geraint, I think that I shall have enough of knighthood with me.
    keywords: arthur; castle; court; daughter; day; earl; emperor; geraint; gwenhwyvar; head; heaven; horse; kai; king; knight; lady; lord; maiden; man; mayest; men; place; son; thee; thou; thy; time; unto; wilt; yonder; youth
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        item: #10 of 20
          id: 19976
      author: None
       title: The Mabinogion Vol. 3
        date: None
       words: 36630
      flesch: 88
     summary: Said one of the women, Is there any counsel for us in the world in this matter? Said the man of the house to the swineherd, Well, youth, hath thy sow come in to-night?
    keywords: boy; counsel; court; day; elphin; gwydion; heaven; horse; king; lady; land; lord; man; men; night; place; pryderi; pwyll; rhiannon; son; thee; thou; time; unto; wife; year
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        item: #11 of 20
          id: 34704
      author: Sikes, Wirt
       title: British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions
        date: None
       words: 130852
      flesch: 78
     summary: _ _s._ _d._ 7A Medium 32mo, cloth limp 0 8 7B ditto roan 1 2 7C ditto morocco or calf 2 6 8A Super-royal 32mo, cloth limp 1 0 8B ditto red edges 1 2 8C ditto roan 2 2 8D ditto morocco or calf 3 6 9A Crown 8vo, cloth, red edges 3 0 9B ditto roan 4 0 9C ditto morocco or calf 6 0 10A Crown 8vo, with Introduction and Notes, red edges 4 0 10B ditto roan 5 0 10C ditto morocco 7 6 11A Penny Edition in Wrapper 0 1 11B ditto cloth 0 2 11G ditto fancy cloth 0 4 11C With Prayer Book, cloth 0 It is not surprising that imagination (and the Welsh imagination is peculiarly vivid) should conjure up the faces and forms of gnomes and coblynau, of phantoms and fairy men.
    keywords: 8vo; account; arthur; author; bed; belief; bell; black; book; boy; bridge; candle; century; chapter; character; children; christmas; church; cloth; company; connection; corpse; country; crown; custom; dancing; david; day; days; death; demy; devil; dogs; door; edition; english; extra; eyes; fairies; fairy; farmer; field; fire; folk; footnote; form; ghost; gilt; glamorganshire; goblin; god; good; hand; head; home; house; human; iii; illustrations; john; jones; king; lady; lake; land; legend; life; little; lore; man; manner; master; men; modern; money; morning; mountain; music; new; night; origin; page; parish; parts; people; person; place; post; purpose; red; river; round; saw; sea; set; sir; small; sort; spirit; stone; story; superstition; tale; teg; thomas; time; tradition; tylwyth; voice; vols; wales; water; way; welsh; white; wife; woman; words; work; world; years
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        item: #12 of 20
          id: 38041
      author: None
       title: Old Celtic Romances
        date: None
       words: 127600
      flesch: 83
     summary: They have overpowered and slain many great kings; for they have gifted arms that no warrior, however powerful, can withstand; and behold, I have come hither to tell you what manner of men these are, that you might be advised by me, and give them your hound-whelp in peace. Do not destroy the net, said Maildun; for what we see is the work of great men.
    keywords: battle; body; brian; brothers; chapter; children; companions; conan; country; curragh; day; death; dermat; door; end; erin; father; fena; fine; finn; food; ford; grania; great; green; hand; head; heart; hill; house; island; king; lake; leave; left; lir; luga; mac; maildun; man; manner; men; morning; night; note; oisin; palace; people; plain; red; rest; round; saw; sea; shore; son; sons; story; thee; thou; thy; time; trees; turenn; voice; water; way; words
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        item: #13 of 20
          id: 42205
      author: Nutt, Alfred Trübner
       title: Studies on the Legend of the Holy Grail With Especial Reference to the Hypothesis of Its Celtic Origin
        date: None
       words: 131377
      flesch: 70
     summary: =M=25----=Ma=10----Third meeting with Perceval =Ma=22, =Ge=22, =W=----Grandfather of Galahad =Q={1}2, 26. =Ge=3----meeting with his son =G=4----Mount Dolorous Quest =G=19----renewed Grail Quest, reproached for conduct at Fisher King's, slaying of Margon =Ma=10----rescue of Lyonel =Ma=18----rescue by Perceval =Ge=16.
    keywords: = co=; = q=6; account; adventures; appears; arthur; author; birch; blood; body; borron; britain; brons; brother; case; castle =; celtic; century; chrestien; christ; christian; come; conception; conte; court; cycle; damsel; daughter; day; death; didot; father; fionn; fisher; fisher king; folk; fool; form; french; galahad; gautier; gauvain; gawain; god; good; grail; grail castle; grail king; grail legend; grail quest; grail romances; grand; hand; head; hero; hirschfeld; history; holy; holy grail; incident; irish; joseph; josephes; king; knight; lady; lance; lancelot; land; legend; life; literature; lord; love; mabinogi; magic; man; manessier; meets; men; morrow; mother; nasciens; original; perceval; peredur; place; poem; quest; question; robert; romances; save; second; set; sir perceval; sister; slain; son; story; sword; tale; talismans; time; tradition; uncle; versions; vessel; visit; way; welsh; wolfram; words; work; world; years
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        item: #14 of 20
          id: 55025
      author: Rhys, John, Sir
       title: Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx (Volume 1 of 2)
        date: None
       words: 152049
      flesch: 69
     summary: In fact, the whole country round Llanfabon Church teemed with fairies, ghosts, and all kinds of uncanny creatures:-- Mewn amaethdy ag syd yn aros yn y plwyf a elwir y Berth Gron, trigiannai gwedw ieuanc a'i phlentyn bychan. i Glogwyn y Gwin, efe a welod y Tylwyth yn ymlodestu a dawnsio ei hochr hi ar weirglod wrth lan Llyn Cawellyn.
    keywords: a'i; a'r; ac yn; account; aeth; afanc; age; amser; ar y; arthur; attention; baby; bed; belief; bendith y; bod; book; boy; brython; cael; cambrian; case; cattle; cave; celtic; century; chapter; children; church; close; coed; coming; corwrion; country; course; cow; cwm; dancing; daughter; david; davies; day; days; death; district; door; drws y; dyn; early; effect; english; evans; evening; eyes; fact; fairies; fairy; family; farmer; father; fawr; fel; ffynnon; field; fire; fod; folklore; following; foot; form; friend; gan; girl; good; green; half; hand; head; hen; history; home; house; hughes; husband; i'r; i'w; idea; ido; iii; information; inhabitants; instance; irish; iron; island; isle; john; jones; kind; know; lady; lake; language; late; leave; left; legend; life; little; living; lle; llyn y; london; look; love; mae; making; man; manx; meaning; means; men; mention; mewn; mind; money; morgan; morning; mother; mountain; mrs; music; names; native; near; neighbourhood; night; north; notes; number; o'r; oed; oed y; ond yn; order; origin; owen; oxford; pan; parish; pennant; people; person; place; point; present; question; reader; regard; return; rev; rhys; river; road; roberts; round; saying; sea; servant; sheep; society; son; sort; south; spot; stone; stories; story; subject; summer; tale; teg; things; thomas; thought; time; town; tree; version; volume; wales; water; way; wedi; welsh; white; wife; williams; witch; woman; word; work; wraig; wrth; y fan; y gwr; y mamau; y nos; y tylwyth; y wraig; years; yn ei; yn y; yn yr; yno; young; ystrad
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        item: #15 of 20
          id: 55989
      author: Rhys, John, Sir
       title: Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx (Volume 2 of 2)
        date: None
       words: 106920
      flesch: 65
     summary: The question then is, in how many of these six cases the story of the hunt accounts for the names of the places of the deaths respectively, that is to say, accounts for them in the ordinary way with which one is familiar in other Welsh stories. For, though construed as Welsh, the name would mean the Silly who is go Dwt [195], 'somewhat tidy or natty'; but the dwt (mutated from twt) was suggested doubtless by the tot of such fairy names as Tom Tit Tot.
    keywords: account; afanc; appears; arthur; aryan; attention; belief; black; book; brythonic; case; cave; celtic; century; chapter; compare; country; course; cúchulainn; day; death; dinas; district; dôn; eagle; early; english; face; fact; fairies; fairy; family; father; folklore; following; form; generation; genitive; gives; goidelic; goidels; great; hand; head; history; home; horse; idea; iii; instance; ireland; irish; kind; king; kulhwch; lake; language; latin; lawgoch; legend; life; lir; little; llyn; london; mabinogion; magic; man; meaning; means; men; mention; mother; mountain; names; native; near; neighbourhood; night; north; notes; occurs; order; origin; original; owen; oxford; people; person; place; point; power; present; question; race; reader; reason; regard; return; river; sea; sense; snowdon; son; sort; soul; south; spot; stone; stories; story; swine; things; time; tradition; trwyth; twrch; version; wales; water; way; welsh; wife; woman; word; year
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        item: #16 of 20
          id: 5678
      author: Leahy, Arthur Herbert
       title: Heroic Romances of Ireland, Translated into English Prose and Verse — Volume 1
        date: None
       words: 67162
      flesch: 76
     summary: It is she who was hurt in the land (?), it is she who strove to win the king, it is she as compared to whom men men speak of fair women, it is she, our Etain afterwards. A wish to connect the two cycles probably accounts for the connection of Lugaid Red-Stripes with Cuchulain, the introduction of Conor and Ailill into the story of Etain may be due to the same cause, and there is no need to suppose that the authors of our versions felt themselves bound by what other men had introduced into the tale of Conary.
    keywords: ailill; battle; book; combat; conor; cuchulain; day; deirdre; end; eochaid; etain; fair; ferdia; fergus; fight; ford; form; gold; great; hand; hath; head; hound; house; ireland; irish; king; lady; laeg; leinster; line; love; mac; man; men; mider; page; place; red; son; sons; story; tale; text; thee; thou; thy; time; tis; translation; ulster; verse; version; war; wife; woman; words
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        item: #17 of 20
          id: 5679
      author: Leahy, Arthur Herbert
       title: Heroic Romances of Ireland, Translated into English Prose and Verse — Volume 2
        date: None
       words: 36401
      flesch: 83
     summary: There is none of thy gems that can aid her, Said Ailill, nor aught thou canst give; There is one thing alone that shall save her; If the ring be restored, she shall live! Said Fraech, The food divide ye! Come, bring ye here the meat!
    keywords: ailill; book; cattle; conall; connaught; cows; cuchulain; daughter; day; dun; egerton; fair; fergus; flidais; ford; fraech; gold; hand; hath; house; kine; king; land; maev; man; medb; men; mider; ocus; queen; ring; shall; silver; sons; tain; tale; text; thee; thou; thy; translation; ulster; version; woman
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        item: #18 of 20
          id: 5680
      author: Leahy, Arthur Herbert
       title: Heroic Romances of Ireland, Translated into English Prose and Verse — Complete
        date: None
       words: 103532
      flesch: 79
     summary: It is she who was hurt in the land (?), it is she who strove to win the king, it is she as compared to whom men men speak of fair women, it is she, our Etain afterwards. As the hooves of the cows on thee trample, thou shalt test 'truth of men in the fight': And the proof thou shalt have shall be ample, for from thee thy head they shall smite! Said Cuchulain: Aside from thee springing, a stone for a cast will I take, And that stone at thee furiously slinging, thy right or thy left leg will break:
    keywords: account; ailill; art; battle; book; chariot; combat; conall; connaught; conor; cows; cuchulain; daughter; day; death; egerton; end; eochaid; etain; fair; ferdia; fergus; fight; find; flidais; ford; form; fraech; gold; good; great; hand; hath; head; hound; house; ireland; irish; king; known; laeg; land; leinster; line; literal; love; mac; maev; man; manuscript; men; mider; page; place; plain; pronounced; queen; red; romances; saw; shall; silver; son; sons; spear; story; tale; text; thee; thine; thou; thy; time; tis; translation; ulster; verse; version; war; welcome; white; wife; woman; word
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        item: #19 of 20
          id: 5795
      author: Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)
       title: The Secret Rose
        date: None
       words: 22413
      flesch: 71
     summary: Costello fumbled at the bag in which he carried his money, and it was some time before it would open, for the hand that had overcome many men shook with fear and hope. For the next few days Duallach went hither and thither trying to raise a bodyguard, and every man he met had some story of Costello, how he killed the wrestler when but a boy by so straining at the belt that went about them both that he broke the big wrestler's back; how when somewhat older he dragged fierce horses through a ford in the Unchion for a wager; how when he came to manhood he broke the steel horseshoe in Mayo; how he drove many men before him through Rushy Meadow at Drum-an-air because of a malevolent song they had about his poverty; and of many another deed of his strength and pride; but he could find none who would trust themselves with any so passionate and poor in a quarrel with careful and wealthy persons like Dermott of the Sheep and Namara of the Lake.
    keywords: abbot; brother; costello; day; dermott; door; eyes; fire; god; hair; heart; house; man; men; moment; rose; voice; water; way; white; wood
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        item: #20 of 20
          id: 8161
      author: Macpherson, James
       title: Fragments of Ancient Poetry
        date: None
       words: 11758
      flesch: 87
     summary: [12] For his new species of poetry Macpherson drew upon the stylistic techniques of the King James Version of the Bible, just as Blake and Whitman were to do later. FRAGMENTS OF ANCIENT POETRY By James Macpherson The Augustan Reprint Society Introduction By John J. Dunn GENERAL EDITORS George Robert Guffey, University of California, Los Angeles Earl Miner, University of California, Los Angeles Maximillian E. Novak, University of California, Los Angeles Robert Vosper, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library ADVISORY EDITORS Richard C. Boys, University of Michigan James L. Clifford, Columbia University Ralph Cohen, University of California, Los Angeles Vinton A. Dearing, University of California, Los Angeles Arthur Friedman, University of Chicago Louis A. Landa, Princeton University Samuel H. Monk, University of Minnesota Everett T. Moore, University of California, Los Angeles Lawrence Clark Powell, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library James Sutherland, University College, London H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., University of California, Los Angeles CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Edna C. Davis, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library INTRODUCTION Byron was actually the third Scotsman in about fifty years who awoke and found himself famous; the sudden rise from obscurity to international fame had been experienced earlier by two fellow countrymen, Sir Walter Scott and James Macpherson.
    keywords: daughter; fair; fingal; footnote; fragments; hill; love; macpherson; oscur; poems; poetry; rock; son; thee; thou; voice; wind
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