celtic myth & folklore

Thurs / 18 / Britain & Κεφαλονιά

[the-evil-clergyman]

Illustration from The Mabinogion by Alan Lee (2001)

[thewildbelladonna]

"These four fantasy-fiction books by American author Evangeline Walton (The Prince of Annwn, The Children of Llyr, The Song of Rhiannon and The Island of The Mighty) are based on traditional Welsh myths. Someone sent them to me back in 1978 because I’d written a song called Rhiannon 5 years earlier. Walton started her work around 1934 and finished in 1974, which was right around the time that I wrote Rhiannon, so I felt like when her work ended, mine began."

—Stevie Nicks 💛💫

[meadowface]

Map detailing events that take place in The Mabinogi by Margaret Jones

[ymarilwyd]

Blodeuwedd

// Friedrich Heyser, Ophelia,1900 // Melchior D'Hondecoeter, The Concert of Birds,1670 // René-Antoine Houasse, Apollo pursuing Daphne,1677 // Aert van der Neer, A Landscape with a River at Evening, 1650 // Lawrence Alma Tadema, Spring, 1894 // Nicolas de Vree, A Forest Floor Still Life with Flowering Plants and Butterflies,  1702 // Salvatore Postiglione, Dante a Beatrice, 1906 // Emil Carlsen, Moonlight, 1901 // Anna Lea Merritt, Eve, 1885 //