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Myths and Folktales

General

Haase, Donald, ed., The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairy Tales, 3 vols (Westport, Conn., 2008)

Mills, Kevin, (London, 2024)

Reichl, Karl, ed., (Berlin, 2011)

Primary Sources
Arthurian Romances

von Eschenbach, Wolfram, , trans. A.T. Hatto (Harmondsworth, 1980)

de France, Marie, , trans. Glyn S. Burgess and Keith Busby (Harmondsworth, 1999) ['Lanval' and 'Chevrefoil']

, trans. Simon Armitage (London, 2008)

of Monmouth, Geoffrey, , ed. and trans. Lewis Thorpe (Harmondsworth, 1966)

von Strassburg, Gottfried, , trans. A.T. Hatto (Harmondsworth, 1967)

de Troyes, Chrétien, , trans. Ruth Harwood Cline (Athens. GA, 1990)

de Troyes, Chrétien, , trans. Ruth Harwood Cline (Athens. GA, 1983)

Celtic

The Book of Taliesin: Poems of Warfare and Praise in an Enchanted Britain, ed. and trans. Rowan Williams and Gwyneth Lewis (Harmondsworth, 2019)

, ed. and trans. Jeffrey Gantz (Harmondsworth, 1981)

The Gododdin: Lament for the Fallen, trans. Gillian Clarke (London, 2022)

Koch, John T., ed., Link opens in a new windowLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window, in collaboration with John Carey, 4th ed. (Aberystwyth, 2003)

, ed. and trans. Sioned Davies (Oxford, 2007)

Owen, Elias, (Oswestry and Wrexham, 1887)

Rhys, John, Celtic Folklore, Welsh and Manx, 2 vols. (Oxford, 1901), and

, trans. Thomas Kinsella (Oxford, 1970)

Finnish

, compiled by Elias Lönnrot, ed. and trans. Keith Bosley (Oxford, 1989)

French

, ed. and trans. Simon Gaunt and Karen Pratt (Oxford, 2016)

Germanic and Norse

Asbjørnsen, Peter Christen, and Jørgen Moe, , trans. Tiina Nunnally (Minneapolis, 2019)

, trans. Michael Alexander (Harmondsworth, 1973)

Fitzsimmons, Lorna, ed., (Berlin and New York, 2008)

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, , trans. Stuart Atkins, with contributions by David E. Wellbery (Princeton, NJ, 2014)

, trans. P. F. Gent (London, 1592)

Marlowe, Christopher, , ed. David Bevington and Eric Rasmussen (Manchester, 2016)

Mann, Klaus, Mephisto (Harmondsworth, 1983)

Mann, Thomas, Doctor Faustus: the life of the German composer Adrian Leverkühn as told by a friend, trans. (London, 1949)

The Nibelungenlied: The Lay of the Nibelungs, ed. and trans. Cyril Edwards (Oxford, 2010)

, ed. and trans. Carolyne Larrington, 2nd ed. (Oxford, 2014)

, ed. and trans. Jesse L. Byock (Berkeley, 1990)

Smiley, Jane, ed., (New York, 2001)

Sturluson, Snorri, , ed. and trans. Anthony Faulkes (London, 1995)

Greek and Roman

Apollodorus, , ed. and trans. Robin Hard (Oxford, 1997)

Hesiod, , ed. and trans. M.L. West (Oxford, 2008)

Homer, , trans. Emily Wilson (New York, 2018)

Ovid, , ed. and trans. Anne Wiseman and Peter Wiseman (Oxford, 2015)

Ovid, , trans. David Raeburn, with an introduction by Denis Feeney (Harmondsworth, 2004)

Vergil, , trans. Sarah Ruden (New Haven, 2008)

Iberian

Da Ponte, Lorenzo, , ed. and trans. Burton D. Fisher (Miami, 2002)

, ed. and trans. Matthew Bailey (Toronto, 2016)

²Ñ´Ç±ô¾±Ã¨°ù±ð, , trans. Kenneth McLeish (London, 2015)

Molina, Tirso de, , trans. Gwynne Edwards (Oxford, 1986) [For Don Juan]

, trans. Burton Raffel, Burton and ed. Maria Rosa Menocal (Harmondsworth, 2009)

The Italian States

Calvino, Italo, , trans. George Martin (Harmondsworth, 2000)

Collodi, Carlo, (London, 2012)

Gonzenbach, Laura, , ed. and trans.Jack Zipes (London, 2004)

Pirandello, Luigi, , ed. and trans. Virginia Jewiss (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020)

Pitré, Giuseppe, , ed. and trans. Jack Zipes and Joseph Russo (London: Taylor & Francis, 2008)

Sami

Hatt, Emilie Demant, , trans. Barbara Sjoholm (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019)

Slavic

The Russian Primary Chronicle: Laurentian TextLink opens in a new window, ed. and trans. Samuel Hazzard Cross and Olgerd P. Shobowitz-Wetzor (Cambridge, Mass., 1930)

, trans. Vladimir Nabokov (London, 1961)

Secondary Sources
Arthurian Romances

Archibald, Elizabeth, and Ad Putter, eds, (Cambridge, 2009)

Brewer, Derek, and Jonathan Gibson, eds, (Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1997)

Fulton, Helen, ed., (Chichester, 2009)

Lupack, Alan, (Oxford, 2005)

Putter, Ad, (Abingdon, Oxon, 1996)

Celtic

Aldhouse-Green, Miranda J., (London, 2015)

Fee, Christopher R., and David A. Leeming, (Oxford, 2001)

MacCulloch, J. A., (London, 2005)

MacKillop, James, (Harmondsworth, 2006)

Markey, Anne, 'The Discovery of Irish Folklore', New Hibernia Review 10: 4 (2006), 21-43

Ó hÓgáin, Dáithí, (Cork, 2006)

Ó Súilleabháin, Seán, A Handbook of Irish Folklore (Dublin, 1942)

Walsham, Alexandra, 'Recording Superstition in Early Modern Britain: The Origins of Folklore', Past & Present 199, supplement 3 (2008), 178–206

Williams, Mark, (Princeton, NJ, 2016)

Wood, Juliette, '', Folklore 116:3 (2005), 325-341,

Wood, Juliette, '', Folklore 108:1-2, (1997), 93-102

Finnish

Siikala, Anna-Leena, 'The Kalevalaic Tradition as Finnish Mythology', Ethnographica et Folkloristica Carpathica 12-13Link opens in a new window (2002), 107-122

French

Burland, Margaret, (Notre Dame, IN, 2007)

Hopkin, David M, (Cambridge, 2012)

Germanic and Norse

Davidson, H. R. Ellis, (London, 1993)

Deats, Sara Munson, (Cambridge, 2019)

Fee, Christopher R., and David A. Leeming, (Oxford, 2001)

Lindow, John, 'Eddic Poetry and Mythology', in , ed. Carolyne Larrington, et al. (Cambridge, 2016), 114-131

Lindow, John, (Oxford, 2001)

Orchard, Andy, 'Beowulf', in , ed. Malcolm Godden and Michael Lapidge, 2nd ed. (Cambridge, 2013), 137-158

Orton, Peter, 'Pagan Myth and Religion', in , ed. Rory McTurk, 2nd ed. (Oxford, 2004), 302-319

Watt, Ian,  (Cambridge, 1996)

Greek and Roman

Bremmer, J. N., and N. M. Horsfall, '', Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, suppl. 52 (1987)

Dowden, Ken, and Niall Livingstone, eds, (Chichester, 2011)

Dowden, Ken, (London, 1990)

Hard, Robin, ed., , 8th ed. (Milton, 2019)

Iberian

Heusch, Carlos, '', Cahiers d’études hispaniques médiévales 40 (2017), 229-236.

Watt, Ian, (Cambridge, 1996)

The Italian States

Ferraro, Eveljn, ‘"', Italian Studies, 77/3 (2022), 271-283.

Gonzenbach, Laura, , ed. and trans.Jack Zipes (London, 2004)

Pirandello, Luigi, , ed. and trans. Virginia Jewiss (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020)

Pitré, Giuseppe, , ed. and trans. Jack Zipes and Joseph Russo (London: Taylor & Francis, 2008)

Slavic

Kononenko, Natalie, (Toronto, 2019)

Lesiv, Mariya, (Montreal, 2013) [Chapter 2]

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