The Outline of Mythology

Thomas Bulfinch's whole mythic world — the gods of Olympus, King Arthur's Round Table, the Mabinogeon, Beowulf and the paladins of Charlemagne — told as stories, the way 1913 read them.

Druids

3 pages in this part of The Outline of Mythology.

Druids

THE Druids were the priests or ministers of religion among the ancient Celtic nations in Gaul, Britain, and Germany. Our information…

Druids: Columba

The Druids retained their predominance in Iona and over the adjacent islands and mainland until they were supplanted and their…

Druids: Culdees

Campbell, in his poem of "Reullura," alludes to the married monks of Iona: "... The pure Culdees Were Albyn's earliest priests of God, Ere…

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