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Celtic fairy tales

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    2009
    Summary:

    At the end of his highly successful English Fairy Tales, Joseph Jacobs compiled Celtic Fairy Tales, a book of 26 Celtic children’s stories from around Wales and Ireland. Celtic Fairy Tales tells of horned women, breweries of eggshells, sprightly tailors, gold and silver trees, King o’ Toole’s goose, sea maidens, and so much more. Of particular interest is the 13th century true legend of Beth Gellert, wherein the dog of Llewelyn (I) the Great, Prince of Wales, protected the prince’s infant son from a wolf attack while Llewelyn was out on a hunt. A memorial to the dog still stands today in the village of Beddgelert, near Mount Snowdon, Wales.

    Subject(s): Celts | Fairy Tales
    Original Publisher: London, Abela Pub.
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9781907256059, 1907256059