附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-230) and index.
The pantheons -- Deity types -- Sacred objects and places -- Heroes and heroines -- Creation and apocalypse -- The sagas -- Conclusion: five reflections of the face of the hero in the medieval English romance: trials, tribulations, and transformative quests.
摘要:This book unearths the layers of the British Isles' unique folkloric tradition to discover how this body of seemingly disparate tales developed. The authors find a virtual battlefield of myths on which pagan and Judeo-Christian beliefs fought for dominance, and classical, Anglo-Saxon, Germanic, and Celtic narrative threads became tangled.
