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Ten Thousand Saints

By Hubert Butler

Ten Thousand Saints

By Hubert Butler

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When it was first published in 1972, Hubert Butler's pioneering masterwork was received with scepticism by his contemporaries. He used linguistics to trace the origins of myths and saints back to pre-Celtic Ireland and Europe, and showed how these stories and names - ancestors of half-forgotten tribes - became absorbed by Christian mythology. The early Irish wove their stories, as did the Greeks, the Hebrews and all early peoples, from the migration of tribes and by wordplay with their time-battered, unstable names. Ten Thousand Saints raises fascinating problems that take us beyond the frontiers of recorded history to the remote movements of European peoples, to the clash of tribes and tongues. As modern DNA sampling and genome-mapping, seen in the regional patterning of today's Irish surnames, reinforce Butler's findings, his methods and thesis are now gaining scholarly recognition. This new edition, amplified and updated, demonstrates ingeniously coded histories - via place names, legends, hero-figures, saints and ancestors - that relate to the wanderings and minglings of all the great tribes of Europe', extending back to Neolithic times.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
366
Release Date:
2011-12-15
Publication Date:
2025-11-07
Publisher:
The Lilliput Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1843511487
ISBN13:
9781843511489
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
623 g
Height:
156 cm
Width:
234 cm
Thickness:
22 cm
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