Celtic Myths & Legends w/ Siân Esther Powell
The History of Vikings
Noah Tetzner
4.7 • 537 Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2018
⏱️ 28 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | The I'm I'm I'm |
| 0:21.6 | I'm |
| 0:22.6 | I'm |
| 0:24.6 | I'm |
| 0:25.6 | I'm Today's episode is going to be a little different as we're going to be exploring Celtic mythology. My guest today is |
| 0:56.1 | Sean Esther Powell and she is the host of the Celtic Myths and Legends podcast, a podcast that |
| 1:02.1 | explores the legends and folkloric creatures of six Celtic nations, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, |
| 1:07.6 | Cornwall, Brittany, and the Isle of Man. I've been wanting to explore Celtic |
| 1:11.8 | mythology for some time on this show, even though it's not related to Vikings. I've recently |
| 1:16.9 | done some reading and have found Celtic myth absolutely fascinating. And while there are a lot |
| 1:22.0 | of parallels between that of the Norse and that of the Celtic, when it comes to folklore |
| 1:26.1 | and mythology, there's also |
| 1:27.6 | some elements that are very different. So I hope you all enjoy this episode today. Sean, thank you |
| 1:32.2 | so much for joining me. Can I just say thank you for pronouncing my name correctly? That's the first. |
| 1:37.4 | My pleasure. Nice to hear. So I guess today I'm talking about Celtic other worlds, I think. |
| 1:44.8 | So hopefully your listeners will find that quite interesting. |
| 1:48.6 | I think the first thing to really put forward is when we talk about Celtic myth and Celtic folklore and Celtic mythology, |
| 1:58.3 | it's a little bit of a misleading term because there was never one monolithic |
| 2:03.6 | Celtic nation. There was Celtic tribes in what we now know of as Wales, Ireland, Scotland, |
| 2:11.8 | Brittany, Cornwall, Isle, Isle, but there was never a pantheon of Celtic gods, which is a big difference to us mythology, whereas, you know, there is a pantheon of gods. |
| 2:22.3 | So I think an interesting thing to talk about is the other worlds and sort of, I guess, elves and supernatural beings in both Norse mythology and Celtic mythology because there's lots of |
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