Welsh folklore, Wirt Sikes
Green Meadows of the Sea
Vanishing fairy islands off the Welsh coast, associated with enchanted inhabitants.
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Welsh folklore, Wirt Sikes
Vanishing fairy islands off the Welsh coast, associated with enchanted inhabitants.
The Mabinogion, Guest’s 1877 edition
The island hall where the survivors of Branwen’s catastrophe spend eighty years outside remembered grief.
The Mabinogion, Guest’s 1877 edition
Arthur’s queen, whose judgement shapes welcome, reparation and honour at court.
The Mabinogion, Guest’s 1877 edition
The cauldron-stirrer whose accidental taste brings foreknowledge and a flight through changing forms.
The Mabinogion, Guest’s 1877 edition
The storyteller and magician whose inventions both injure and restore his kin.
Dante, Purgatorio
The English king appears alone within the company of waiting rulers.
John Milton, Paradise Lost
The burning realm whose confinement continues inside the rebel who leaves it.
Japanese legends, Davis retelling
The heavenly setting of divine mourning and missions in Davis’s early legends.
Celtic fairy traditions
Irish royal landscape surrounded by stories of Sidhe processions.
Dante, Inferno
The supreme poet who leads the classical company greeting Virgil in Limbo.
Dante, Inferno
The poet named Flaccus, praised for satire within the classical company.
The Mabinogion, Guest’s 1877 edition
The dream-guide who confesses to twisting messages between Arthur and Medrawd.
Japanese heroic legend, Davis retelling
The miraculous gift associated with Hidesato's title My Lord Bag of Rice in Davis's tale.
Japanese legends, Davis retelling
The tiny hero who travels with a needle and later receives an ordinary human size.
John Milton, Paradise Lost
The searching angel whose spear reveals Satan’s true shape beside the sleeping Eve.
Indian traditions, Nivedita and Coomaraswamy
Sita’s father and the ruler whose great bow establishes the marriage test.
Dante, Inferno
The final frozen division, where the souls are entirely enclosed and Lucifer occupies the centre.
Dante, Purgatory and Paradise
The emperor who recounts law and empire beneath the sign of the Roman eagle.
Indian traditions, Nivedita and Coomaraswamy
The ruler whose attempt to prevent a prophecy leads to a confrontation with Krishna.
Indian traditions, Nivedita and Coomaraswamy
Arjuna’s rival, born to Kunti and the sun but raised in a charioteer’s household.
Japanese legends in F. Hadland Davis’s English retellings (1912)
A palace resident sees jealousy as snakes in his household’s hair, becomes a monk and refuses recognition by his son in Davis’s account.
The Mabinogion, Guest’s 1877 edition
Arthur’s cousin, whose imposed marriage destiny begins the search for Olwen.
Japanese legends, Davis retelling
The strong mountain child who befriends animals and attracts Yorimitsu’s attention.
Japanese legends in F. Hadland Davis’s English retellings (1912)
A rejected lover becomes a dragon-serpent and destroys the bell sheltering a priest in Davis’s tale of passion and karma.