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  1. Werewolves, magical hounds, and dog-headed men in Celtic literature
    a typological study of shape-shifting
    Author: Bernhardt-House, Phillip A.
    Published: ©2010
    Publisher:  Edwin Mellen Press, Lewiston

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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden, Hochschulbibliothek, Standort Weiden
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0773412123; 9780773412125
    Subjects: Celtic literature / History and criticism; Literature; Language and languages; LITERARY CRITICISM / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literatur; Sprache; Celtic literature; Werewolves in literature; Shapeshifting; Werwolf; Literatur; Metamorphose <Motiv>; Keltisch
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (518 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

    Foreword / by John Carey -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: The canid question -- Celtic canids: The status quaestionis -- Outline and methodology -- Celtic canids: ordinary, renowned, and monstrous -- Canids: ordinary -- Canids: noteworthy -- Canids: monstrous -- Conclusions -- Canids in serial shapeshifting -- Serial shapeshifting in Wales -- Serial shapeshifting in Ireland -- Late instances of serial shapeshifting in Scotland and Brittany -- Celtic lycanthropy, cynanthropy, and other canid therioanthropies -- Metaphorical werewolves -- Constitutional werewolves -- "The werewolf's tale" -- Transformation by spell or curse -- "Threat" of werewolves -- Cynocephali, cynocephaloids, and other mutts -- Cynocephali: an introduction -- "Doghead" -- "Dogheads" -- "Dog's heads" -- Conclusions -- Appendix one: canid terms and elements in personal names -- Appendix two: Celtic canids in archaeology, classical sources and iconography -- Appendix three: Celtic canids in legal sources -- Appendix four: the hounds of the Fíanna -- Appendix five: edition of "Conceand ingi Cathbaidh caim" with provisional translation

    This book is a typological study of canids and canid imagery in Medieval Celtic cultures. It explores texts ranging from early Irish legal tracts and heroic narrative to exempla from Welsh, Breton, and later Scottish sources
  2. Werewolves, magical hounds, and dog-headed men in Celtic literature
    a typological study of shape-shifting
    Published: c2010
    Publisher:  Edwin Mellen Press, Lewiston

    This book is a typological study of canids and canid imagery in Medieval Celtic cultures. It explores texts ranging from early Irish legal tracts and heroic narrative to exempla from Welsh, Breton, and later Scottish sources more

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    Hochschule Esslingen, Bibliothek
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    Universitätsbibliothek der Eberhard Karls Universität
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    This book is a typological study of canids and canid imagery in Medieval Celtic cultures. It explores texts ranging from early Irish legal tracts and heroic narrative to exempla from Welsh, Breton, and later Scottish sources

     
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