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The Other World: Myths of the Celts
Retells ten myths involving the gods, ancient kings, and simple folk heroes of the Celts.
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Introduction
The Swan Children
The Champion of Ireland
How Finn Mac Cool Got His Wisdom Tooth
The Poem of Finn
Dermot in the Land-under-Wave
Tam Lin
To the Sun/To the New Moon
The Lad of Luck and the Monster of the Loch
The Bells of Ys
Merlin the Magician
How Gareth of Orkney Won His Spurs
The Last Battle
The Isles of the Happy
Bibliography
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Introduction
The Swan Children
The Champion of Ireland
How Finn Mac Cool Got His Wisdom Tooth
The Poem of Finn
Dermot in the Land-under-Wave
Tam Lin
To the Sun/To the New Moon
The Lad of Luck and the Monster of the Loch
The Bells of Ys
Merlin the Magician
How Gareth of Orkney Won His Spurs
The Last Battle
The Isles of the Happy
Bibliography
176 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1973
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About the author
Margaret Hodges
72 books55 followersMargaret "Peggy" Hodges was an American writer of books for children.
She was born Sarah Margaret Moore in Indianapolis, Indiana to Arthur Carlisle and Annie Marie Moore. She enrolled at Tudor Hall, a college preparatory school for girls. A 1932 graduate of Vassar College, she arrived in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with her husband Fletcher Hodges Jr. when in 1937 he became curator at the Stephen Foster Memorial. She trained as a librarian at Carnegie Institute of Technology, now Carnegie Mellon University, under Elizabeth Nesbitt, and she volunteered as a storyteller at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. Beginning in 1958 with One Little Drum, she wrote and published more than 40 books.
Her 1985 book Saint George and the Dragon, illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman, won the Caldecott Medal of the American Library Association.
She was a professor of library science at the University of Pittsburgh, where she retired in 1976.
Hodges died of heart disease on December 13, 2005 at her home in Oakmont, Pennsylvania. She suffered from Parkinson's disease.
She wrote her stories on a notepad or a typewriter. "I need good ideas, and they don't come out of machines," she once said.
She was born Sarah Margaret Moore in Indianapolis, Indiana to Arthur Carlisle and Annie Marie Moore. She enrolled at Tudor Hall, a college preparatory school for girls. A 1932 graduate of Vassar College, she arrived in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with her husband Fletcher Hodges Jr. when in 1937 he became curator at the Stephen Foster Memorial. She trained as a librarian at Carnegie Institute of Technology, now Carnegie Mellon University, under Elizabeth Nesbitt, and she volunteered as a storyteller at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. Beginning in 1958 with One Little Drum, she wrote and published more than 40 books.
Her 1985 book Saint George and the Dragon, illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman, won the Caldecott Medal of the American Library Association.
She was a professor of library science at the University of Pittsburgh, where she retired in 1976.
Hodges died of heart disease on December 13, 2005 at her home in Oakmont, Pennsylvania. She suffered from Parkinson's disease.
She wrote her stories on a notepad or a typewriter. "I need good ideas, and they don't come out of machines," she once said.
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March 14, 2022
This was my book for St Patrick's season. I love folktales and these were magical.
December 15, 2025
Wonderful introductions to each tale placing them in literary, political and oral history.
January 11, 2012
I enjoyed the author's brief introductions to each myth, which helped me understand each tale.
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