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24 titles for readers of The Mabinogion by Anonymous, selected for shared themes: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, European, and Literary Criticism.

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Mabon and the Mysteries of Britain An Exploration of the Mabinogion — Caitlín Matthews

Caitlin Matthews

Themes: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Simon Armitage

Themes: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European

Chaucer’s Legendary Good Women

Florence Percival

Themes: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European

Silver Branch Bardic Poems & Letters to a Young Bard

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Themes: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European

Robert Pollok’s The Course of Time and Literary Theodicy in the Romantic Age The Rise and Fall of a Christian Epic

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Themes: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European

The Green Knight (Movie Tie-In)

Anonymous

Themes: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European

English Mystics of the Middle Ages

Barry A. Windeatt

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

Poems;With a Chapter from Francis Thompson, Essays, 1917 by Benjamin Franklin Fisher

Francis Thompson

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

Chaucer and the Mystics The Canterbury Tales and the Genre of Devotional Prose

Robert Boenig

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

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Popular Arthurian Traditions

Sally K. Slocum

Themes: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European

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Irish Fairy Tales and Folklore

W. B. Yeats

Themes: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo

J. R. R. Tolkien

Themes: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European

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Malory The Knight Who Became King Arthur’s Chronicler

Christina Hardyment

Themes: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European

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Contemporary Irish Traditional Narrative The English Language Tradition

Clodagh Brennan Harvey

Themes: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European

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Once Upon A Time Folk And Fairy Tales Of The World

Roger Lancelyn Green

Themes: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European

#16

Interrupted Music The Making of Tolkien’s Mythology

Verlyn Flieger

Themes: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European

#17

The War of the Ring The History of the Lord of the Rings, Part Three

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

Themes: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European

#18

Dubliners

James Joyce

Themes: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European

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Planet Narnia The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis

Michael Ward

Themes: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European

#20

When You Are Old Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales

William Butler Yeats

Themes: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European

#21

The Works of the Gawain Poet Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Patience, Cleanness

Myra Stokes

Themes: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European

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Writings on Irish Folklore, Legend and Myth

William Yeats

Themes: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European

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The Adventures of Tom Bombadil — J R R Tolkien

J. R. R. Tolkien

Themes: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European

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The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

Themes: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European

If The Mabinogion by Anonymous is on your shelf, these 24 titles belong there too. Connected by Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, European and selected for literary and thematic overlap. Featuring work by Caitlin Matthews, Simon Armitage, Florence Percival, Kevan Manwaring, and others.