Celtic Source

The answer may not be what you think . . . I also respond to a question about the apparent difference between myth and folklore. This is an edited version of a talk I gave for Druids Down Under.

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What questions should we ask when investigating Celtic myths? There are plenty we could ask, but I've tried to hone it down to three eternally fruitful questions.

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There's not many folks who end up in my line of work, and I often reflect on how I've ended up here, why I'm still following the path of Celtic myth.

It all began with Taliesin, and I have a very distinct set of memories from my youth about those first tentative steps.

This is a recorded version of the introduction to the new book (and now course), Taliesin Origins.

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Do books on modern paganism have a translation problem when it comes to Celtic sources? A discussion with Kris Hughes on an important subject.

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What would a 5th branch of the Mabinogi look like? By following the recurring themes of The Four Branches of the Mabinogi, is there a way of guessing what a 5th branch would contain? A lecture given a few years back at the Aberystwyth Storytelling Festival.

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Many of the characters in Welsh and Irish myths are believed to be medieval versions of earlier Celtic gods. But did medieval audiences and readers see them in the same way? What was the medieval relationship to Celtic myth? Dr Gwilym Morus-Baird tries to answer the question.

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In this addendum to our long rangeing conversation about Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, poet and storyteller Tom Hirons talks about what brings some poems and stories to life.

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight isn't just an old poem about chivalry and codes of honour, it also appears to be a meditation upon different types of masculinity. Which story about the sacred masculine is being told here?

In this fifth part of a long rangeing discussion between Dr Gwilym Morus-Baird and the poet and storyteller, Tom Hirons, we enter the final stages of our exploration.

Dr Gwilym Morus-Baird and Tom Hirons venture into the pagan wilds of the English classic, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Many scholars have commented on the mixture of Christian and Pagan beliefs in the poem, but why did the anonymous author contrast the two types of belief so explicitly? The fourth part in the series.