Monthly Archives: October, 2010
Druids and Druidism by T. D. Kendrick
I resisted reading this book for a while because I knew that it was written in 1927 and the information in it would be out dated. I opted to first read all I could on Celtic history before I jumped into it. So now that I felt confident in my knowledge I read it. I …
The Celtic World by Professor Barry Cunliffe
The Celtic World is a book that I have been looking for for a while now, along with the book with the same name written by Miranda Green. This book by professor Cunliffe was copyrighted around 1990. So it is a bit old. Professor Cunliffe, is a professor of European Archeology, and as such the …
A Short Introduction to the Mesolithic to Neolithic Times in Europe
The Mesolithic period falls between the Paleolithic period (also called the Old Stone Age) and the Neolithic period (also called the New Stone Age). It began over ten thousand years ago, when the glaciers of Scandinavia and the Alps had more or less retreated to their current locations. The Mesolithic period had a warm climate …
Druids: Preachers of Immortalityby Anne Ross
Synopsis: Druidism was the religion of the Celts and the Druids themselves were all-powerful, taking precedence over the Celtic kings. Over and above the evidence of classical texts and of archeology, the richest source of information about the Druids is the vernacular material from Ireland and Wales. It is the author’s unparalleled familiarity with the …
Notes On History Part Two
To explain the Neolithic Package I am going to use the following two time-lines that I have made while reading. For a general time-line of Europe in the Neolithic Age (event oriented) see: http://www.worldtimelines.org.uk/world/europe/7000-2750BC The Bronze Age refers to a period in history when most advanced metalworking used bronze. The people either smelted copper and …
Tales of the Celtic Bards by Claire Hamilton
This was actually a very enjoyable book though it is clearly aimed at the modern Druids. The author divides her book of myths into Irish, Scottish, Welsh and Armorica myths, with the Irish myths getting the lion’s share, but then, there are more of them. The myths are not in their original translation but are …
Old Gods, New Druids by Robin Herne
The main reason I decided to buy this book is that I had already read the author’s Polytheist Druidry Lessons on The Druid Network which can be found at the following link: (http://druidnetwork.org/learning/courses/online/polytheist). This book is an expansion of these lessons. You will find when you read the table of contents of the book that …
