by Anne Ross
In the past there has been much mystification about the nature of pagan Celtic religion. Recently it has become almost unfashionable to use this term. Even now there exists no sound reference book on Celtic religion in Britain, nor any corpus of archaeological remains. Dr. Ross, Carnegie Research Fellow in the University of Edinburgh, has approached this controversial subject by studying both surviving cult-objects of the pre-Christian Celts and the original texts of Irish and Welsh legends, and by correlating results.
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