Chronological Syllabus and Selected Books Readings

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CHRONOLOGICAL SYLLABUS

HIsToRIcAL.---Arrival

in Britain of the earliest

Celts

(Goidels) about 1000-500

B.C.-Brythons

and

Belgs,

coming

over during the 2nd and 3rd centuries B.C., largely sup-

plant the Goidels-Belgic settlers still crossing over from

Gaul in the time of Julius Caesar, who made his first invasion

B.C.-Britain

declared a Roman province under Claudius

A.D.

43-Abandoned

under Honorius A.D.

410-D~z~&&~~

forbidden to Roman citizens under Tiberius (reigned A.D.

14-37) and its complete suppression ordered by Claudius

(reigned A.D.

41-54)-The

chief stronghold of the Druids

in Britain destroyed under Suetonius Panlinus, A.D.

61-

Cllristianitl~,

introduced under the Roman rule, makes gradual

headway-Gildas, writing in the sixth century, describes

paganism as extinct in

civilised

Britain-Era of St. Patrick

in Ireland, fifth century--St. Columba carries the gospel to

the Northern

Picts,

sixth century.

TRADITIONAL.-FiCtitiOuS

d&es

assigned by the Irish com-

pilers of pseudo-annals for all the mythical eras and

events-

Possibly authentic may be the placing of the heroic age of

Ulster in the first century A.D. and the epoch of the Fenians

in the second and third-British gods enrolled as early kings

by Geoffrey of Monmouth or made the founders of powerful

or saintly families by Welsh genealogists--The historic Arthur

may have lived in the fifth-sixth centuries.

LITERARY.-The sixth

century~.~.

is the traditional period

of the bards

Myrddin,

Aneurin,

Taliesin, and

Llywarch

H&n,

poems ascribed to whom are found in the Welsh

mediaeval

MYTHOLOGY OF ANCIENT BRITAIN

MSS., while Irish legend asserts

that

the

T&in

C%ua,iZgne

was first reduced to writing in the seventh-Gradual

acc~mu-

lation

of Irish and Welsh mythical sagas, including the Four

Branches of the Mabinogi, eighth-eleventh-The Irish Book of

the Dun Cow and Book of Leinster and the Welsh Black

Book of Carmarthen, compiled during the twelfth

;

the Welsh

Books of Aneurin and of Taliesin during the thirteenth; and the

Irish Book of

Bdlymote

and the Yellow Book of

Lecan

and the

Welsh Red Book of Hergest during the fourteenth-About 1136

Geoffrey of Momnouth finished his

Histovia

Britonurn,

and

during this century and the one following British mythical

and heroic legend was

moulded

into the Continental Arthurian

romances-About 1470 Sir Thomas Malory composed his

Mode

Dcwthw

from French sources-The working-up of Gaelic

traditional material ended probably in the middle of the

eighteenth century-James

MacPherson

produced his

pseudo-

Ossianic ‘epics,’

1760-63-In

1838-49 Lady Charlotte Guest

published her

McLbinogion,

and from this date the renaissance

of Celtic study and inspiration may be said to have com-

menced.

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