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Irish Literature featuring the War Goddesses<\/a>\u00a0 |\u00a0Books and Papers on Gaelic and I-E Warriors<\/a>\u00a0 |\u00a0F\u00edanna in Literature<\/a>\u00a0 |\u00a0Pagan Writings<\/a>\u00a0 |\u00a0Cross-cultural\/Modern Warrior<\/a>\u00a0 |\u00a0Physical Feminism and Gender Issues<\/a><\/p>\n

If you happen to be looking for my own writings on the subject they are listed on the index page<\/a><\/p>\n

Preliminary<\/i><\/span>\u00a0Reading for those New to Celtic\/Gaelic Reconstructionist Paganism<\/em><\/h3>\n

A conversation brought up that some finding this page may not have a background in cultural Reconstructionist methods and may be trying to fit this work into Wiccan-style structures and mindsets I highly suggest checking out A Study Program for An Irish Traditional Polytheist<\/a>, but this is my number 1 must<\/strong> read here:<\/em><\/p>\n

Nerys Patterson, <\/span>Cattle Lords & Clansmen: The Social Structure of Early Ireland, <\/span><\/i>Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame, 1994<\/span><\/p>\n

Papers on the War Goddesses<\/i><\/h3>\n

John Carey, \u201cThe Name \u2018Tuatha D\u00e9 Danann<\/i>\u2019” \u00c9igse<\/i>, Vol. 18, prt. 2, 1981, pg. 291-94<\/p>\n

——, \u201cNotes on the Irish War-Goddess\u201d \u00c9igse<\/i>, Vol. 19, prt. 2, 1983, pg. 263-275<\/p>\n

Paula Powers Coe,\u00a0“Macha <\/em>and Conall Cernach: <\/em>A Study of Two Iconographic Patterns in Medieval Irish Narratives and Celtic Art” <\/em>dissertation, UCLA, 1995<\/p>\n

Angelique Gulermovich Epstein, “War goddess: the Morri\u0301gan and her Germano-Celtic counterparts”<\/a> dissertation, University of California in Los Angeles, 1998<\/p>\n

Kim Heijda,\u00a0 “War-goddesses, furies and scald crows: The use of the word badb<\/i> in early Irish literature”<\/a> thesis, University of Utrecht, Feb. 27, 2007 (link updated on 11\/19\/17)<\/p>\n

WM Hennessey,\u00a0“The Ancient Irish Goddess of War”<\/a>\u00a0 Revue Celtique<\/em> vol 1. 1870, pg. 32-57 (Please keep in mind the period and the development of research since then)<\/p>\n

Irish <\/a>Literature Featuring the War Goddesses<\/h3>\n

<\/i>J. Fraser, “The First Battle of Moytura” (Cath Maige Tuired Cunga<\/em>), \u00c9riu<\/i> 8, 1915 at JSTOR<\/a> Or in English only on Mary Jones site<\/a><\/p>\n

Elizabeth Gray, trans., Cath Maige Tuired: The Second Battle of Mag Tuired\u00a0 English<\/a>, In Irish<\/a> Irish Text Society<\/p>\n

Eleanor Hull, ed., The Cuchullin Saga in Irish Literature: being a collection of stories relating to the Hero Cuchullin<\/i><\/a>, London: David Nutt on the Strand, 1898<\/p>\n

A. H. Leahy,\u00a0 The Courtship of Ferb: An Old Irish Romance Transcribed in the 12th<\/sup> Century into the Book of Leinster<\/em><\/a> (Tochmarc Ferbe) New York, 1902 (translation only)<\/p>\n

——-,\u00a0 T\u00e1in B\u00f3 Regamna<\/i> English<\/a>,\u00a0 In Irish<\/a> Leahy, ed. Heroic Romances of Ireland<\/i>, Volume II London: David Nutt, 1906<\/p>\n

Robert A. Stewart MacAlister, ed. and trans., Lebor Gab\u00e1la \u00c9renn<\/i>: The Book of the Taking of Ireland Vol IV<\/a> Dublin: Irish Text Society, 1941<\/p>\n

Kuno Meyer,\u00a0 trans. \u2018The Wooing of Emer\u2019<\/a>\u00a0 \u201cTochmarc Emire<\/i>\u201d<\/a>\u00a0 Archaeological Review<\/i> 1, 1888<\/p>\n

——, trans.\u00a0 Echtrae Nerai<\/i> (The Adventure of Nera)<\/a> Revue celtique<\/i> 10 (1889), pg. 212-228<\/p>\n

Cecile O’Rahilly, trans.,\u00a0T\u00e1in B\u00f3 C\u00faalnge<\/i> Book of Leinster English<\/a>, In Irish<\/a> 1967<\/p>\n

——–, trans.,\u00a0T\u00e1in B\u00f3 C\u00faalnge<\/i>, Recession 1 English<\/a>, In Irish<\/a>\u00a0 Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1976<\/p>\n

AG van Hamel Compert Con Culainn and Other Stories, Medieval and Modern Irish Series<\/i><\/a>, Vol 3, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1933<\/p>\n

Books and Papers Related to <\/a>Gaelic and other Indo-European Warriors<\/i><\/h3>\n

David Anthony and Dorcas Brown, \u201cMidwinter Dog Sacrifices at LBA Krasnosamarskoe, Russia And Traces of Initiations for M\u00e4nnerb\u00fcnde<\/em><\/a>\u201d Paper presented,\u00a0 Conference: Tracing the Indo-European: Origin and migrations. Roots of Europe Research Center, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Dec 11 \u2013 13, 2012<\/p>\n

Sharon J. Arbuthnot and Geraldine Parsons, eds., The Gaelic Finn Tradition<\/em>, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2012<\/p>\n

B\u00e9aloideas Iml<\/em>. 54\/55, (1986\/1987) — this issue of this journal has several excellent papers on the Fianna, including “Fenian Heroes and Their Rites of Passage” by Joseph Falaky Nagy, “Fianaigecht<\/em> in the Pre-Norman Period” by Proinsias Mac Cana and “Magic Attributes of the Hero in Fenian Lore” by D\u00e1ith\u00ed \u00d3 h\u00d3g\u00e1in it can be found at JSTOR<\/a><\/p>\n

Phillip Bernhardt-House, “Binding the Wolf, Leashing the Hound: Canid Eschatologies in Irish and Norse Myth<\/a>,”Studia Celtica Fennica XIV,\u00a0<\/em>Finnish Society for Celtic Studies, 2017<\/p>\n

——-, “Imbolc: A New Interpretation<\/a>,”\u00a0Cosmos: The Yearbook of the Traditional Cosmology Society,<\/em> 18 (2005): pg. 57\u201376<\/p>\n

——–, \u201cWarriors, Words, and Wood: Oral and Literary Wisdom in the Exploits of Irish Mythological Warriors\u201d Studia Celtica Fennica<\/i><\/a> VI,\u00a0 Finnish Society for Celtic Studies, 2009<\/p>\n

———,\u00a0Werewolves, Magical Hounds and Dog-Headed Men in Celtic Literature: A Typological Study of Shape-Shifting,<\/em> Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press<\/a>, 2010<\/p>\n

John Carey, \u201cWerewolves in Medieval Ireland\u201d Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies, <\/em>Issue 44, 2002<\/p>\n

Nora Chadwick, \u201cImbas Forosnai<\/i>\u201d Scottish Gaelic Studies<\/i>, vol 4, part 2, Oxford University Press, 1935<\/p>\n

Diana Dominguez, Historical Residues in the Old Irish<\/em> Legends of Queen Medb: An Expanded Interpretation of the Ulster Cycle\u00a0 <\/i>Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press<\/a>, 2010. See my review here<\/a><\/p>\n

Flahive, Joseph J., <\/span>The Fenian Cycle in Irish and Scots-Gaelic Literature<\/span><\/i>, Cork Studies in Celtic Literatures 1, Cork: Cork University Press, 2017<\/span><\/p>\n

Daniel Gershenson,\u00a0 Apollo The Wolf-God<\/i>,\u00a0 Journal <\/em>of <\/em>Indo-European <\/em>Studies, Monograph No. 8<\/em>., Washington D.C.: Institute for the Study of Man Inc., 1992<\/p>\n

Kris Kershaw, The <\/em>One-eyed God: <\/em>Odin <\/em>and <\/em>the <\/em>(Indo-) Germanic M\u00e4nnerb\u00fcnde<\/em>, Journal <\/em>of <\/em>Indo-European <\/em>Studies, Monograph No. 36<\/em>., Washington D.C.: Institute for the Study of Man Inc., 2000<\/p>\n

Kim McCone, \u201cAided Cheltchair Maic Uthechair: Hounds, Heroes and Hospitallers in Early Irish Myth and Story.\u201d \u00c9riu<\/i> 35, 1984 at JSTOR<\/a><\/p>\n

——-, \u201cVaria II.\u201d \u00c9riu <\/i>36, 1985 at JSTOR<\/a><\/p>\n

——-, \u201cWerewolves, Cyclopes, D\u00edberga<\/em> and F\u00edanna<\/em>: Juvenile Delinquency in Early Ireland\u201d Cambridge Medieval Celtic Studies<\/em>, issue 12, 1986<\/p>\n

Joseph Falaky Nagy. The Wisdom of the Outlaw: The Boyhood Deeds of Finn in Gaelic Narrative Tradition,<\/em> Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985<\/p>\n

J. R. Reinhard and V. E. Hull, \u201cBran and Sceolang,\u201d Speculum<\/i> 11, 1936 at JSTOR<\/a><\/p>\n

R.F.M. Schiphorst, \u201cThe hound\/wolf and warrior in Irish literature: A narratological and semiotic analysis of the Acallam na Sen\u00f3rach<\/i>,\u201d<\/a> BA thesis Utrecht University, 2016<\/p>\n

Richard Sharpe, \u201cHiberno-Latin Laicus<\/i>, Irish L\u00e1ech<\/i> and the Devil’s Men,\u201d \u00c9riu<\/i>\u00a0 30, 1979 at JSTOR<\/a><\/p>\n

Michael P. Speidel, \u201cBerserks: A History of Indo-European \u2018Mad Warriors,\u2019” Journal of World History<\/i> Vol. 13, No. 2 (Fall, 2002)<\/p>\n

M\u00e1ire West, “Aspects of D\u00edberg<\/i> in the Tale Togail Bruidne Da Derga<\/i>,”<\/a>\u00a0 Zeitschrift f\u00fcr celtische Philologie (ZcP)<\/i>, Volume 49-50<\/p>\n

Camilla Michelle With Penderson, “Metamorphoses: a Comparative Study of Representations of Shape-Shifting in Old Norse and Medieval Irish Narrative Literature,”<\/a> Masters thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth., 2015<\/p>\n

<\/a>F\u00edanna in Literature<\/h3>\n

John Gregorson Campbell, The Fians: or Stories, Poems & Traditions of Fionn and His Warrior Band<\/em>, Elibron Classics, 2005 (org. pub. Date 1891)\u00a0 original edition can be found online <\/a><\/p>\n

Anne Dooley and Harry Roe, trans., Tales of the Elders of Ireland: a new translation of Acallamh na Sen\u00f3rach<\/em>, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999 (This is my favorite translation. However, Standish Hayes O’Grady’s partial translation is available online \u201cThe Colloquy of the Ancients<\/a>,\u201d Medieval Irish Series<\/i>, Cambridge, 1999 and the Irish as well as translations of parts O’Grady did not translate can now be found at Whitley Stokes, ed. Acallamh na Sen\u00f3rach I<\/i><\/a> Stokes & E. Windisch, ed., Irische Texte<\/i> vol 4 part 1, 1900)<\/p>\n

Kuno Meyer, ed., \u201cMacgnimartha Find<\/a><\/i>,\u201d Revue Celtique 5<\/i>, 1881 (the Irish, see next listing for translations)<\/p>\n

——-ed. and trans., \u201cThe Boyish Exploits of Finn<\/a>,\u201d \u00c9riu 1<\/i>, 1904 (the translations of the above)<\/p>\n

——-ed. & trans., Fianaigecht<\/i><\/a>, Dublin, Ireland: Hodges, Figgis & Co., 1910<\/p>\n

Gerard Murphy, ed. and trans., Duanaire Finn: The Book of the Lays of Finn<\/em> Vol. I<\/a>, London: Irish Texts Society, 1908<\/p>\n

—–Duanaire Finn: The Book of the Lays of Finn<\/em> Vol. II<\/a>, London: Irish Texts Society, 1933<\/p>\n

——Duanaire Finn: The Book of the Lays of Finn<\/em> Vol. III<\/i><\/a>, London: Irish Texts Society, 1953<\/p>\n

<\/a>Pagan Writings<\/h3>\n

“An Morr\u00edgan: War Goddess and More”<\/a>\u00a0 by Maya St.Clair -Another Polytheist’s Essay on one of the War Goddesses<\/p>\n

A Wolf-Man, Not a Wolf in Man’s Clothing<\/a> -especially focused on the lycanthropic aspects of the path<\/p>\n

Trials of a F\u00e9innid<\/a> – another exploration of f\u00e9nnidecht<\/p>\n

Cross-cultural and <\/a>Modern Warrior Path Resources<\/h3>\n

John Carman and Anthony Harding, eds. Ancient Warfare: Archaeological Perspectives<\/em>, Gloustershire: Sutton Publishing, 2004<\/p>\n

Rick Fields,ed. The Awakened Warrior<\/em>, New York: Putnam Book 1994<\/p>\n

Joshua S. Goldstein, War and Gender: How Gender Shapes the War System and Vice Versa<\/em>, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2001<\/p>\n

Sun Tzu The Art of War<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/a>Physical Feminism and Gender Issues<\/h3>\n

Jeannine Davis-Kimball, Ph.D with Mona Behan. Warrior Women: An Archaeologist’s Search for History’s Hidden Heroines<\/i>, New York: Warner Books, 2002 See my review here<\/p>\n

Collette Dowling,\u00a0 The Frailty Myth: Redefining the Physical Potential of Women and Girls<\/i>, New York: Random House, 2001 See my review here<\/p>\n

Shari L. Dworkin and Fay Linda Wach,\u00a0 Body Panic: Gender Health and the Selling of Fitness<\/i>, New York : NYU Press, 2009<\/p>\n

Shari L. Dworkin and Leslie Heywood, Built to Win: the female Athlete as Cultural Icon<\/em>, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003<\/p>\n

Cynthia Eller, The Myth of Matriarchy: Why an Invented Past Won’t Give Women a Future<\/em>, Boston: Beacon Press, 2000<\/p>\n

Leslie Heywood, Bodymakers: A Cultural Anatomy of Women’s Body Building<\/em>, New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1998<\/p>\n

Abby Wettan Kleinbaum, The War Against the Amazons<\/em>, New York: New Press\/MacGraw-Hill Book Company, 1983<\/p>\n

Katheryn M. Linduff and Karen S. Rubinson, eds. Are All Warriors Male? Gender Roles on the Ancient Eurasian Steppe<\/em>, Lanham: AltaMira Press, 2008<\/p>\n

Martha McCaughey, Real Knockouts: The Physical Feminism of Women’s Self-Defense<\/i>,\u00a0 NY: New York University Press, 1997<\/p>\n

Ellen Snortland, Beauty Bites Beast: Awakening the Warrior Within Women and Girls<\/em>,\u00a0 Trilogy Books, 1998<\/p>\n

Mary Zeiss Stange,\u00a0 Woman the Hunter<\/em>, Boston: Beacon Press, 1997<\/p>\n

Carol A. Wiley, ed. Women in the Martial Arts<\/em>, North Atlantic Books, 1992<\/p>\n

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