Bibliography
  1. Home
  2. Bibliography
  3. Celtic myth in the 21st century: the gods and their stories in a global perspective
  4. Bondarenko (Grigory) 2018 cdjgahse

Bondarenko, Grigory, “Ireland as mesocosm”, in: Emily Lyle (ed.), Celtic myth in the 21st century: the gods and their stories in a global perspective, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2018. 53–71.

  • article in collection
Citation details
Contributors
Article
“Ireland as mesocosm”
Work
Pages
53–71
Year
2018
BibTeX
Subjects and topics
Headings
early Irish literature folklore, mythology and popular culture
Sources
Texts
History, society and culture
Agents
BanbaBanba
(time-frame ass. with Irish legendary history)
Banba is a designation for Ireland as a whole, though  “[o]rig. name of north Leinster = mag mBreg, hence from British compound *Banno-Magos [...] or from *ban-w-yā as a theonym” (eDIL s.v. Banba), as well as an eponymous character or personification who is said to have given her name to the island; sometimes mentioned along with two sisters, Ériu and Fódla, who did likewise.
See more
web page identifiers
Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen
Page created
November 2021, last updated: January 2022
Retrieved from ‘https://codecs.vanhamel.nl/index.php?title=Bondarenko_(Grigory)_2018_cdjgahse&oldid=250772’