Best arthurian romance criticism books according to redditors

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u/IdaPlainsmen_E · 6 pointsr/asatru

Here is a quality tomb regarding the landvaettir, and this book will help you in understanding house wights.

At the end of the day, it's about respect and discovering what works for you and yours. [UPG] Wights seem to be unique in their personalities, wants and desires. A lot like people are. Sometimes it can take some experimentation to find what works. At times, honoring some spirits can be a simple as leaving offerings of whole foods, or milk. Other wights seem to prefer something a little more formal. In either case, a regular routine seems to be about the only commonality. [/UPG] That's just my experience though. Your mileage may vary.

u/bookwench · 2 pointsr/books

Horatio Hornblower series by C. S. Forester, most definitely! Then you'd have to list all the stuff that's been based off that series, which is down the bottom of the wikipedia page.

And I know this is a bit out there for you, but you could call this supplementary - it's historical fiction with dragons. His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire, Book 1) by Naomi Novik.

For the girls, you could get them to read the stuff by Georgette Heyer. Heyer was a romance novelist whose research library for British period customs and clothing was fiercely fought over by museums and libraries when she died. She wrote things that are both engaging and truly capture the flavor of the timeframe; she didn't impose modern morals and anachronisms onto her fiction.

Sherlock Holmes? Pick a few of the classic stories and maybe analyze the differences between society then in Victorian England and today. As a companion, you could get them to read the bit in A Bloody Business: An Anecdotal History of Scotland Yard which discusses Arthur Conan Doyle and his contributions to social change in Victorian London.

Then there's the Mabinogi, which has inspired tons of other works, and you could pair that with Susan Cooper's Dark Is Rising Series - there's only one book in there that really draws from/deals with Welsh myth, but it's a good one.

u/BenningRavensWorkAct · 2 pointsr/Paganacht
u/DeathDaisy · 2 pointsr/Gamingcirclejerk

I liked The Celtic Myths: A Guide to the Ancient Gods and Legends as a nice intro, and its on kindle which is nice and easy. Magic in the Middle Ages is heavy reading, and not about directly about mythology, but its super interesting. I got some pretty nice but also quite heavy books on welsh mythology too in physical form, but not closeby. I can check their names if youre interested tho!

EDIT: The Arthur of the Welsh: The Arthurian Legend in Medieval Welsh Literature this one I really enjoyed

u/He_Himself · 1 pointr/tolkienfans

It's been published, and there are some inexpensive used copies on Amazon. If you want to see Tolkien's exact notes, try to get an earlier version (prior to 1968), since Oxford University Press did a little bit to modernize his notes.

By the way, it's not a translation. It's the Middle English text (which is literally unreadable by everybody but a scholar of Middle English), but you don't really need to worry about deciphering the actual poem. The cool part is that each stanza corresponds to Tolkien's notes, so if you have a copy of his later translation, you can pair the two and see how he formed his interpretation.

u/erissays · 1 pointr/Fantasy

For a more 'Medieval Literature' folklore focus:

u/scopperil · 1 pointr/suggestmeabook

I'm pretty sure my copy of Gawain had Pearl and Patience in it too. I'll dig around when I get home. No wait, it's on Amazon, https://www.amazon.co.uk/Gawain-Cleanness-Patience-Everymans-Library/dp/0460875108, but very out-of-print looking.

This was my Middle English text book at university - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Book-Middle-English-J-Burrow/dp/1405117095 - along with support from https://www.amazon.co.uk/Early-Middle-English-Verse-Prose/dp/0198711018 (which also looks horribly out of print). I think you get The Owl and the Nightingale in the latter.

Not sure with any of those links whether they'll speak to your desire to follow the word into modern spelling - generally they're more interested in the meaning. But one of the details I loved while studying was watching the same word find a new definition; here's people arguing over whether beer (sorry, beor) is cider or not. http://www.tha-engliscan-gesithas.org.uk/gegaderung/index.php?topic=391.0

u/UrbanHeathen · 1 pointr/asatru

Elves, Wights, and Trolls


The Tradition of Household Spirits


Demons and Spirits of the Land: Ancestral Lore and Practices


Theodish Houserites


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