WELSH HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL READING LIST You may or may not be able to find these books. Most of
them are out of print and can only be found in a University library. But they are all
important because they give the true flavor of the Welsh history, literature and culture.
- Alexander, L., The Black Cauldron, New York: Dell Publ., 1972
- ibid., The Book of Three, New York: Dell Publ., 1972
- ibid., The Castle of Llyr, New York: Dell Publ., 1972
- ibid., The High King, New York: Dell Publ., 1972
- ibid., Taran Wanderer, New York: Dell Publ., 1972
- Alexander, W.L., The Ancient British Church, London: 1889
- Ancient and Modern Britons, London: Kegan Paul and Trench & Co., 1881
- Anwyl, E., Celtic Religion in Pre-Christian Times, London: 1906
- Bartrum, P.C., The Thirteen Treasures of the Island of Britain, Etudes
Celtiques vol 10, 1963
- ibid., Early Welsh Genealogical Tracts, Cardiff: 1966
- The Black Book of Carmarthen, Pwllheli: J.G. Evans, 1906
- Book of Aneirin, Translated by Ifor Williams, Wales: Caerdydd, 1938
- The Text of the Book of Llan Dav, J.G. Evans and John Rhys, Oxford: 1893 Book
of Taliesin, Translated by J.G. Evans, Llanbedrog, 1910
- Bowen, Rev. B.F., America Discovered by the Welsh, Philadelphia: J.B.
Lippencott & Co., 1876
- Brechfa: First Critic of the Bards, Cincinnati Cymmrodorian Society, 1877
- Bromwich, R., Troedd Ynys Prydein in Welsh Literature and Scholarship,
Cardiff, Univ. of Wales Press, 1969
- Brut Y Tywysogion, or The Chronical of the Princes, edited and translated
by by J. Williams Ithel, London: 1860
- Connelan, O., Translation of the Proceedings of the Great Bardic Institution,
London: 1840
- Daniel, Sir John, The Philosophy of Ancient Britain, London: Kennekut
Press, 1970
- Davies, Edward, Mythology and Rites of the British Druids, London: 1809
- ibid., Celtic Researches, London: 1804
- Denning, R., Druidism at Pontypridd, Glamorgan Historian, 1963
- Dudley, D.R. & Webster, G., The Rebellion of Boudicca, London: 1962
- Evans, J.G., The White Book Mabinogion, Pwllheli: 1907
- ibid., The Book of Taliesin, Llanbedrog: 1910
- ibid., The Text of the Book of Lan Dav, Oxford: 1893
- ibid., Report on Manuscripts in the Welsh Language, 2 Vols, London:
1898-1910
- Gantz, J., The Mabinogion, London: Penguin, 1976
- Gruffydd, W.J., Math vab Mathonwy, Cardiff: 1928
- Jones, Bedwyr Lewis, The Welsh Bardic Tradition, Proceedings of the
Seventh International Congress of Celtic Studies, ed. Evans, Oxbow Books, 1986
- Jones, G. & Jones, T., The Mabinogion, London: Everyman, 1949
- Kendrick, Sir Thomas D., The Druids: a Study of Keltic Prehistory, London:
Methuen & Co., 1927
- ibid., British Antiquity, London: 1950
- LLoyd, J.E., A History of Wales, London: 1911
- The Mabinogion, ed. Lady Charlotte Guest, Cardiff: John Jones Ltd., 1977
This is one of the most important books in the Welsh Tradition.
- ibid., The Mabinogi, Cardiff: Univ. of Wales Press, 1977
- ibid., The Three Languages and the Three Laws, 1970
- The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales, ed. Owain Jones, Edward William and
[Pughe] William Owen, Denbigh: 1870
- Nash, David William, Taliesin; or the Bards and Druids of Britain, London:
J.R. Smith, 1858
- Owen, Madoc ap, Madoc,An Essay on the Discovery of America, London:
Longmans, Green & Co., 1893
- Owen, Robert, The Kymry: Their origins, history..., Carmarthen: 1891
- Peate, I. C., The Gorsett of the Bards of Britain, London: Antiquities
#25, 1951
- Pughe, O., Hanes Taliessin, Cambrian Quarterly Magazine, 1833
- Rees, Alwyn and B., Celtic Heritage: Ancient Traditions in Ireland and Wales,
Grove Press, 1961
- Report on Manuscripts in the Welsh Language, 2 vols., London: J.G. Evans,
1898-1910
- Rhys, J., Lectures of the Origin and Growth of Religion as Illustrated by Celtic
Heathendom, "The Hibbert Lectures for 1886", London: 1888
- ibid., Studies in the Arthurian Legend, Oxford: 1891
- ibid., Celtic Britain, "Early Britain" Series, London: 1882
- ibid., Celtic Folklore, Welsh and Manx, 2 Vols, Oxford: 1901
- ibid., Celtic Heathendom, London: nd
- ibid., The Mabinogion, London: 1901
- ibid., The Welsh People, 4th ed., London: 1906
- Rowland, Eurys, Tri Thlws ar Ddeg ynys Prydain (The Thirteen Treasures of the
Island of Britain), 1958
- Skene, W. F., Four Ancient Books of Wales, trans. Edinburgh: Edmonston and
Douglas, 1868
- Spence, L., The Magick Arts in Celtic Britain, London: Rider & Co.,
1946
- ibid., The History and Origins of Druidism, New York: Rider, 1949
- ibid., Boadicea, London: 1937
- ibid., Mysteries of Britain, London: Rider & Co., 1928
- Stephens, T., The Literature of The Kymmry, nd
- Welsh Indians, The, by George Burder, The Magazine of History,
vol. 20, no. 77-80
- The White Book of Rhydderch, Peniarth MS 4 & 5, London: British
Museum, nd
- The White Book Mabinogion, J.G. Evans, Pwllheli, 1907
- Whitlock, R., In Search of Lost Gods, a Guide to British Folklore, Oxford,
1979
- William, J., An Enquiry into the Truth of the Tradition Concerning the Discovery
of America by Prince Madoc ab Owen Gwynedd about the Year 1170, London: J. Brown,
1791
- Williams, John ab Ithel, Barddas; or a collection of original documents
illustrative of the theology, wisdom, and usages of the bardo-druidic system of the Isle
of Britain; Llandovery: Welsh Manuscript Society, 1862-1874 (2 vol.)
- ibid., Traditional Annals of the Cymry, Tenby: 1867
- Williams, E., Taliesin, The Iolo Manuscripts, Llandovery: W. Rees, 1848
- Williams, F.J., Tri Chod Ynys Prydain (Three Memorials of the Island of Britain),
1955
- Williams, Griffith John, Iolo Morganwg. Y Gyfrol Gyntef, Caerdydd: 1956
- Williams, I., Lectures on Welsh Poetry, Dublin: Institute for Advanced
study, 1944
