A growing collection of resources for awenyddion on the Brythonic and Celtic traditions, folk and fairy lore, and bardism.
Brythonic Mythology
Texts
A.O.H. Jarman (transl.), Aneirin – Gododdin, (Gomer Press, 1998)
John Bollard & Anthony Griffiths, Englynion y Beddau/The Stanzas of the Graves, (Gwasg Carreg Gwalch, 2015)
John Bollard, The Mabinogi, (Gomer Press, 2006)
John Bollard, Companion Tales to the Mabinogi, (Gomer Press, 2007)
John Bollard, Tales of Arthur, (Gomer Press, 2010)
Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson (transl), The Gododdin, (Edinburgh University Press, 1969)
Gerald of Wales, The Journey through Wales / The Description of Wales, (Penguin Books, 1978)
Geoffrey of Monmouth, The History of the Kings of Britain, (Penguin Classic, 1973)
Geoffrey of Monmouth, The Life of Merlin, (Forgotten Books, 2008)
Marged Haycock, Legendary Poems from the Book of Taliesin, (CMCS, 2007)
Marged Haycock, Prophecies from the Book of Taliesin, (CMCS, 2013)
Meirion Pennar (transl.), The Black Book of Carmarthen, (Llanerch Enterprises, 1989)
Patrick Ford (transl), Mabinogi and Other Welsh Tales, (University of California Press, 2008)
Rachel Bromwich (ed), The Triads of the Island of Britain, (University of Wales Press, 2014)
Rachel Bromwich and Simon D. Evans (eds), Culhwch and Olwen, (University of Wales, 1998)
Sioned Davies (transl.), The Mabinogion, (Oxford University Press, 2007)
Discussions
A. O. H. Jarman, The Cynfeirdd: Early Welsh Poets and Poetry, (University of Wales Press, 1981)
A. O. H. Jarman and Gwilym Rees Hughes, A Guide to Welsh Literature Vol. 1, (University of Wales Press, 1992)
James MacKillop, Dictionary of Celtic Mythology, (Oxford University Press, 1998)
Peter Bartrum, A Welsh Classical Dictionary: People in History and Legend up to about A.D. 1000, (National Library of Wales, 1993)
John Rhys, Celtic Heathendom, ()
Proinsias Mac Cana, The Mabinogi, (University of Wales Press, 1977)
Proinsias Mac Cana, Celtic Mythology (Hamlyn, 1968)
Rachel Bromwich, A. O. H. Jarman, Brynley F. Roberts, The Arthur of the Welsh, (University of Wales Press, 1991)
Will Parker, The Four Branches of the Mabinogi, (Bardic Press, 2005)
W. J. Gruffydd, Rhiannon: An Inquiry into the Origins of the First and Third Branches of the Mabinogi, (University of Wales Press, 1953)
T M Charles Edwards Wales and the Britons (OUP, 2013)
Brythonic Deities/Modern Approaches
Angelika H. Rudiger, ‘Gwyn ap Nudd: Transfigurations of a character on the way from medieval literature to neo-pagan beliefs’, Gramarye, Issue 2 (University of Chichester, Winter 2012)
Caitlin Matthews, Mabon and the Guardians of Celtic Britain, (Inner Traditions, 2002)
Caroline Wise, Finding Elen: The Quest for Elen of the Ways, (Create Space, 2015)
Danu Forest, Gwyn ap Nudd: Wild God of Faery, Guardian of Annwfn, (Moon Books, 2017)
Lee Davies (ed), The Grey Mare on the Hill, (Grey Mare Books, 2015)
Lorna Smithers, Gatherer of Souls, (Self-Published, 2018)
Miranda Green, The Gods of the Celts, (Bramley Books, 1986)
Miranda Green, Celtic Goddesses: Warriors, Virgins, Mothers, (British Museum Press, 1998)
Neil Thomas, ‘The Celtic Wild Man Tradition and Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Vita Merlini: Madness or Contemptus Mundi?’, Arthuriana, Vol. 10, No. 1 (Spring 2000)
Nikolai Tolstoy, The Quest for Merlin, (Sceptre, 1985)*
R. J. Stewart, Celtic Gods and Goddesses, (Blandford, 1990)
Peter H. Goodrich, Romance of Merlin, (Garland Science, 1990)
Robin Herne, Old Gods, New Druids, (O Books, 2009)
Susie Fox, Ritual Journeys with Great British Goddesses, (Trafford, 2012)
Rhyd Wildermuth, ‘Arianrhod, the Crown of the North’, Paganarch, (2014)
Jhenah Telyndru (ed), Flower Face: A Devotional Anthology in Honor of Blodeuwedd, (Ninth Wave Press, 2016)
Richard Derks, Hoofprints in the Wildwood, (Lulu, 2011)
Sheena McGrath, Brigantia: Goddess of the North, (Lulu, 2016)
Rhyd Wildermuth, ‘Awakening the Land: Madness and the Return of the Welsh Gods,’ Walking the Worlds, Building Regional Cultus, Volume 1 Issue 2 Summer 2015,
Tim Clarkson, Scotland’s Merlin, (Berlinn, 2016)
Yuri Leitch, Gwyn: Ancient God of Glastonbury and key to the Glastonbury Zodiac, (The Temple Publications, 2007)*
Celtic Culture
Alexander Carmichael and John Macinnes, Carmina Gadelica: Hymns and Incantations from the Gaelic, (Floris Books, 1992)
Alistair Moffat, The Sea Kingdoms: The History of Celtic Britain and Ireland, (Harper Collins, 2002)
Anne Ross, Pagan Celtic Britain, (Cardinal, 1974)
Bernard Maier, Dictionary of Celtic Religion and Culture, (The Boydell Press, 1997)
Barry Cunliffe, The Ancient Celts, (Penguin, 1999)
Francis Pryor, Britain BC, (Harper Perennial, 2004)
John T. Koch (ed), The Celtic Heroic Age, (Celtic Studies Publications, 2003)
John T. koch (ed) Celtic Culture an Historical Encyclopaedia (ABC-Clio, 2006)
Kenneth Jackson, A Celtic Miscellany, (Penguin, 1971)
Miranda Green, Animals in Celtic Life and Myth, (Routledge, 1998)
Miranda Green, Dying for the Gods, (The History Press, 2002)
Sharon Paice MacLeod, Celtic Myth and Religion: A Study of Traditional Belief, with Newly Translated Prayers, Poems and Songs, (McFarland, 2011)
Sharon Paice MacLeod, The Divine Feminine in Ancient Europe: Goddesses, Sacred Women and the Origins of Western Culture, (McFarland, 2013)
Sharon Paice MacLeod, Celtic Cosmology and the Otherworld, (McFarland, 2018)
Sioned Davies and Nerys Ann Jones (eds.), The Horse in Celtic Culture: Medieval Welsh Perspectives, (Cardiff, 1997)
Folk and Fairylore
Francis Jones, The Holy Wells of Wales, (Cardiff, 1992)
Katherine Briggs, The Fairies in Tradition and Literature, (Routledge, 1967)
Katherine Briggs, A Dictionary of British Folk Tales 4 Volumes, (Routledge, 1970-71)
Katherine Briggs, A Dictionary of Fairies, (Penguin, 1976)
Marie Trevalyn, Folklore and Folk Stories of Wales, (Kessinger Publishing, 2010)
John Rhŷs, Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx, (Oxford, 1901)
Robin Gwyndaf, Welsh Folk Tales, (National Museum of Wales Books, (1996)
T. Gwynn Jones, Welsh Folklore and Folk-Custom, (Redwood Burn, 1979)
Trefor M. Owen, Welsh Folk Customs, (Gomer Press, 1994)
Wirt Sikes, British Goblins, (Lightning Source, 1880)
W. Jenkyn Thomas, The Welsh Fairy Book, (Dover Publications, 2001)
W. Y. Evans Wentz, The Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries, (Colin Smythe Limited, 1977)*
Bardism and Druidry
Joseph P. Clancy, Medieval Welsh Poems, (Four Courts Press, 2018
Rachel Bromwich (ed.), Dafydd ap Gwilym: Poems, (Gomer Press, 2003)
Mererid Hopwood, Singing in Chains, (Gomer Press, 2004)
Iolo Morganwg, The Barddas, (Weiser, 2004)
Ronald Hutton, The Druids, (Hambledon, 2007)
Ronald Hutton, Blood and Mistletoe, (Yale, 2009)
Stuart Piggott, The Druids, (Thames and Hudson, 1985)
Websites
Celtic Literature
Celtic Literature Collective
Mabinogion.info
Mabinogi.net
Sacred Texts
Brythonic Mythology
Texts
A.O.H. Jarman (transl.), Aneirin – Gododdin, (Gomer Press, 1998)
John Bollard & Anthony Griffiths, Englynion y Beddau/The Stanzas of the Graves, (Gwasg Carreg Gwalch, 2015)
John Bollard, The Mabinogi, (Gomer Press, 2006)
John Bollard, Companion Tales to the Mabinogi, (Gomer Press, 2007)
John Bollard, Tales of Arthur, (Gomer Press, 2010)
Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson (transl), The Gododdin, (Edinburgh University Press, 1969)
Gerald of Wales, The Journey through Wales / The Description of Wales, (Penguin Books, 1978)
Geoffrey of Monmouth, The History of the Kings of Britain, (Penguin Classic, 1973)
Geoffrey of Monmouth, The Life of Merlin, (Forgotten Books, 2008)
Marged Haycock, Legendary Poems from the Book of Taliesin, (CMCS, 2007)
Marged Haycock, Prophecies from the Book of Taliesin, (CMCS, 2013)
Meirion Pennar (transl.), The Black Book of Carmarthen, (Llanerch Enterprises, 1989)
Patrick Ford (transl), Mabinogi and Other Welsh Tales, (University of California Press, 2008)
Rachel Bromwich (ed), The Triads of the Island of Britain, (University of Wales Press, 2014)
Rachel Bromwich and Simon D. Evans (eds), Culhwch and Olwen, (University of Wales, 1998)
Sioned Davies (transl.), The Mabinogion, (Oxford University Press, 2007)
Discussions
A. O. H. Jarman, The Cynfeirdd: Early Welsh Poets and Poetry, (University of Wales Press, 1981)
A. O. H. Jarman and Gwilym Rees Hughes, A Guide to Welsh Literature Vol. 1, (University of Wales Press, 1992)
James MacKillop, Dictionary of Celtic Mythology, (Oxford University Press, 1998)
Peter Bartrum, A Welsh Classical Dictionary: People in History and Legend up to about A.D. 1000, (National Library of Wales, 1993)
John Rhys, Celtic Heathendom, ()
Proinsias Mac Cana, The Mabinogi, (University of Wales Press, 1977)
Proinsias Mac Cana, Celtic Mythology (Hamlyn, 1968)
Rachel Bromwich, A. O. H. Jarman, Brynley F. Roberts, The Arthur of the Welsh, (University of Wales Press, 1991)
Will Parker, The Four Branches of the Mabinogi, (Bardic Press, 2005)
W. J. Gruffydd, Rhiannon: An Inquiry into the Origins of the First and Third Branches of the Mabinogi, (University of Wales Press, 1953)
T M Charles Edwards Wales and the Britons (OUP, 2013)
Brythonic Deities/Modern Approaches
Angelika H. Rudiger, ‘Gwyn ap Nudd: Transfigurations of a character on the way from medieval literature to neo-pagan beliefs’, Gramarye, Issue 2 (University of Chichester, Winter 2012)
Caitlin Matthews, Mabon and the Guardians of Celtic Britain, (Inner Traditions, 2002)
Caroline Wise, Finding Elen: The Quest for Elen of the Ways, (Create Space, 2015)
Danu Forest, Gwyn ap Nudd: Wild God of Faery, Guardian of Annwfn, (Moon Books, 2017)
Lee Davies (ed), The Grey Mare on the Hill, (Grey Mare Books, 2015)
Lorna Smithers, Gatherer of Souls, (Self-Published, 2018)
Miranda Green, The Gods of the Celts, (Bramley Books, 1986)
Miranda Green, Celtic Goddesses: Warriors, Virgins, Mothers, (British Museum Press, 1998)
Neil Thomas, ‘The Celtic Wild Man Tradition and Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Vita Merlini: Madness or Contemptus Mundi?’, Arthuriana, Vol. 10, No. 1 (Spring 2000)
Nikolai Tolstoy, The Quest for Merlin, (Sceptre, 1985)*
R. J. Stewart, Celtic Gods and Goddesses, (Blandford, 1990)
Peter H. Goodrich, Romance of Merlin, (Garland Science, 1990)
Robin Herne, Old Gods, New Druids, (O Books, 2009)
Susie Fox, Ritual Journeys with Great British Goddesses, (Trafford, 2012)
Rhyd Wildermuth, ‘Arianrhod, the Crown of the North’, Paganarch, (2014)
Jhenah Telyndru (ed), Flower Face: A Devotional Anthology in Honor of Blodeuwedd, (Ninth Wave Press, 2016)
Richard Derks, Hoofprints in the Wildwood, (Lulu, 2011)
Sheena McGrath, Brigantia: Goddess of the North, (Lulu, 2016)
Rhyd Wildermuth, ‘Awakening the Land: Madness and the Return of the Welsh Gods,’ Walking the Worlds, Building Regional Cultus, Volume 1 Issue 2 Summer 2015,
Tim Clarkson, Scotland’s Merlin, (Berlinn, 2016)
Yuri Leitch, Gwyn: Ancient God of Glastonbury and key to the Glastonbury Zodiac, (The Temple Publications, 2007)*
Celtic Culture
Alexander Carmichael and John Macinnes, Carmina Gadelica: Hymns and Incantations from the Gaelic, (Floris Books, 1992)
Alistair Moffat, The Sea Kingdoms: The History of Celtic Britain and Ireland, (Harper Collins, 2002)
Anne Ross, Pagan Celtic Britain, (Cardinal, 1974)
Bernard Maier, Dictionary of Celtic Religion and Culture, (The Boydell Press, 1997)
Barry Cunliffe, The Ancient Celts, (Penguin, 1999)
Francis Pryor, Britain BC, (Harper Perennial, 2004)
John T. Koch (ed), The Celtic Heroic Age, (Celtic Studies Publications, 2003)
John T. koch (ed) Celtic Culture an Historical Encyclopaedia (ABC-Clio, 2006)
Kenneth Jackson, A Celtic Miscellany, (Penguin, 1971)
Miranda Green, Animals in Celtic Life and Myth, (Routledge, 1998)
Miranda Green, Dying for the Gods, (The History Press, 2002)
Sharon Paice MacLeod, Celtic Myth and Religion: A Study of Traditional Belief, with Newly Translated Prayers, Poems and Songs, (McFarland, 2011)
Sharon Paice MacLeod, The Divine Feminine in Ancient Europe: Goddesses, Sacred Women and the Origins of Western Culture, (McFarland, 2013)
Sharon Paice MacLeod, Celtic Cosmology and the Otherworld, (McFarland, 2018)
Sioned Davies and Nerys Ann Jones (eds.), The Horse in Celtic Culture: Medieval Welsh Perspectives, (Cardiff, 1997)
Folk and Fairylore
Francis Jones, The Holy Wells of Wales, (Cardiff, 1992)
Katherine Briggs, The Fairies in Tradition and Literature, (Routledge, 1967)
Katherine Briggs, A Dictionary of British Folk Tales 4 Volumes, (Routledge, 1970-71)
Katherine Briggs, A Dictionary of Fairies, (Penguin, 1976)
Marie Trevalyn, Folklore and Folk Stories of Wales, (Kessinger Publishing, 2010)
John Rhŷs, Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx, (Oxford, 1901)
Robin Gwyndaf, Welsh Folk Tales, (National Museum of Wales Books, (1996)
T. Gwynn Jones, Welsh Folklore and Folk-Custom, (Redwood Burn, 1979)
Trefor M. Owen, Welsh Folk Customs, (Gomer Press, 1994)
Wirt Sikes, British Goblins, (Lightning Source, 1880)
W. Jenkyn Thomas, The Welsh Fairy Book, (Dover Publications, 2001)
W. Y. Evans Wentz, The Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries, (Colin Smythe Limited, 1977)*
Bardism and Druidry
Joseph P. Clancy, Medieval Welsh Poems, (Four Courts Press, 2018
Rachel Bromwich (ed.), Dafydd ap Gwilym: Poems, (Gomer Press, 2003)
Mererid Hopwood, Singing in Chains, (Gomer Press, 2004)
Iolo Morganwg, The Barddas, (Weiser, 2004)
Ronald Hutton, The Druids, (Hambledon, 2007)
Ronald Hutton, Blood and Mistletoe, (Yale, 2009)
Stuart Piggott, The Druids, (Thames and Hudson, 1985)
Websites
Celtic Literature
Celtic Literature Collective
Mabinogion.info
Mabinogi.net
Sacred Texts