| Animal Symbolism in Celtic Mythology Page 4 Bibliography 
Baines, Keith, trans. Malory's Le Morte D'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table. Penguin Books: New York, NY, USA, 1962. xi-xx, 22-43, 118-136, 472-512
Return to: King Arthur's dragons and serpents, white deer, dreams of water beast as omens. Davidson, H.R. Ellis. Myths and Symbols in Pagan Europe: Early Scandinavian and Celtic Religions. Syracuse University Press: Syracuse, NY, USA, 1988. 87, 90, 107
Return to: birds, ravens and battle, cattle as food for the Celts, Horses as fertility symbols, horse and tribe's fertility, divination from animal movement, shape changing as a punishment, animal skins to enhance dreams, or birds as converyors of secrets. Ford, Patrick K., trans. The Mabinogi and Other Medieval Welsh Tales. University of California Press: Berkeley, CA, USA, 1977.
Return to: wisdom of the salmon, gaining wisdom through eating salmon, dragons as infertility, use birds to demonstrate prowess, bird songs or mist to leave mortal world, pursuing a magical boar into other worlds, supernatural dogs, Rhiannon's arrival on a supernatural horse, dragons and sterility, and mice and hard times. Kinsella, Thomas, trans. The Tain. Oxford University Press: Oxford, England, 1969.
Return to: birds as messengers, Connla's use of birds to demonstrate prowess, flock of birds consuming crops of Ulster, small creatures as souls, shape changing in battle. MacCulloch, J. A. The Religion of the Ancient Celts. T. and T. Clark : Edinburgh, Scotland 1911.
Return to: boars as symbols of strength and courage, boar bristles, salmon gain wisdom, tiny animals as souls, divination from animal movement, shape changing as a punishment, spirit guardians. Pilkington, F. M., ed. "Deirdre and the Sons of Uisne." The Three Sorrowful Tales of Erin. The Bodley Head: London, England 1965. 127-232
Return to: birds as omens in dreams. Powell, T.G.E. The Celts. New Ed., Thames and Hudson: New York, NY, USA, 1980.
Return to: boars and warriors or horses, cattle, and pigs in Celtic graves. Sharkey, John. Celtic Mysteries: The Ancient Religion. Crossroad: New York, NY, USA, 1975. Spector, Norman B., trans. The Romance of Tristan and Isolt. Northwestern University Press: Evanston, USA, 1973 http://www-personal.umich.edu/~lars/rel375.html  
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