General

Haase, Donald, ed., The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairy Tales, 3 vols (Westport, Conn., 2008)

Mills, Kevin, Myths and Ancient Stories: Narrative, Meaning and Influence in the WestLink opens in a new window (London, 2024)

Reichl, Karl, ed., Medieval Oral LiteratureLink opens in a new window (Berlin, 2011)

Primary Sources

Arthurian Romances

von Eschenbach, Wolfram, ParzivalLink opens in a new window, trans. A.T. Hatto (Harmondsworth, 1980)

de France, Marie, The LaisLink opens in a new window, trans. Glyn S. Burgess and Keith Busby (Harmondsworth, 1999) ['Lanval' and 'Chevrefoil']

Sir Gawain and the Green KnightLink opens in a new window, trans. Simon Armitage (London, 2008)

of Monmouth, Geoffrey, The History of the Kings of BritainLink opens in a new window, ed. and trans. Lewis Thorpe (Harmondsworth, 1966)

von Strassburg, Gottfried, TristanLink opens in a new window, trans. A.T. Hatto (Harmondsworth, 1967)

de Troyes, Chrétien, Lancelot, or, The Knight of the CartLink opens in a new window, trans. Ruth Harwood Cline (Athens. GA, 1990)

de Troyes, Chrétien, Perceval, or, The Story of the GrailLink opens in a new window, trans. Ruth Harwood Cline (Athens. GA, 1983)

Celtic

The Book of Taliesin: Poems of Warfare and Praise in an Enchanted Britain, ed. and trans. Rowan Williams and Gwyneth Lewis (Harmondsworth, 2019)

Early Irish Myths and SagasLink opens in a new window, ed. and trans. Jeffrey Gantz (Harmondsworth, 1981)

The Gododdin: Lament for the Fallen, trans. Gillian Clarke (London, 2022)

Koch, John T., ed., The Celtic Heroic Age: Literary Sources for Ancient Celtic Europe and Early Ireland and WalesLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window, in collaboration with John Carey, 4th ed. (Aberystwyth, 2003)

The MabinogionLink opens in a new window, ed. and trans. Sioned Davies (Oxford, 2007)

Owen, Elias, Welsh Folk-Lore: A Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North WalesLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window (Oswestry and Wrexham, 1887)

Rhys, John, Celtic Folklore, Welsh and Manx, 2 vols. (Oxford, 1901), Vol. 1Link opens in a new windowLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window and Vol. 2Link opens in a new windoLink opens in a new window

The TáinLink opens in a new window, trans. Thomas Kinsella (Oxford, 1970)

Finnish

The KalevalaLink opens in a new window, compiled by Elias Lönnrot, ed. and trans. Keith Bosley (Oxford, 1989)

French

The Song of Roland and Other Poems of CharlemagneLink opens in a new window, ed. and trans. Simon Gaunt and Karen Pratt (Oxford, 2016)

Germanic and Norse

Asbjørnsen, Peter Christen, and Jørgen Moe, The Complete and Original Norwegian Folktales of Asbjørnsen and MoeLink opens in a new window, trans. Tiina Nunnally (Minneapolis, 2019)

BeowulfLink opens in a new window, trans. Michael Alexander (Harmondsworth, 1973)

Fitzsimmons, Lorna, ed., Lives of Faust: The Faust Theme in Literature and Music. A ReaderLink opens in a new window (Berlin and New York, 2008)

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, Faust I & IILink opens in a new window, trans. Stuart Atkins, with contributions by David E. Wellbery (Princeton, NJ, 2014)

The historie of the damnable life and deserved death of Doctor John FaustusLink opens in a new window, trans. P. F. Gent (London, 1592)

Marlowe, Christopher, Dr. Faustus: the A- and B- texts (1604, 1616)Link opens in a new window, ed. David Bevington and Eric Rasmussen (Manchester, 2016)

Mann, Klaus, Mephisto (Harmondsworth, 1983)

Mann, Thomas, Doctor Faustus: the life of the German composer Adrian Leverkühn as told by a friend, trans. (London, 1949)

The Nibelungenlied: The Lay of the Nibelungs, ed. and trans. Cyril Edwards (Oxford, 2010)

The Poetic EddaLink opens in a new window, ed. and trans. Carolyne Larrington, 2nd ed. (Oxford, 2014)

The Saga of the Volsungs: The Norse Epic of Sigurd the Dragon SlayerLink opens in a new window, ed. and trans. Jesse L. Byock (Berkeley, 1990)

Smiley, Jane, ed., The Sagas of Icelanders: A SelectionLink opens in a new window (New York, 2001)

Sturluson, Snorri, EddaLink opens in a new window, ed. and trans. Anthony Faulkes (London, 1995)

Greek and Roman

Apollodorus, The Library of Greek MythologyLink opens in a new window, ed. and trans. Robin Hard (Oxford, 1997)

Hesiod, Theogony and Works and DaysLink opens in a new window, ed. and trans. M.L. West (Oxford, 2008)

Homer, The OdysseyLink opens in a new window, trans. Emily Wilson (New York, 2018)

Ovid, FastiLink opens in a new window, ed. and trans. Anne Wiseman and Peter Wiseman (Oxford, 2015)

Ovid, MetamorphosesLink opens in a new window, trans. David Raeburn, with an introduction by Denis Feeney (Harmondsworth, 2004)

Vergil, The Aeneid, trans. Sarah Ruden (New Haven, 2008)

Iberian

Da Ponte, Lorenzo, Mozart's Don GiovanniLink opens in a new window, ed. and trans. Burton D. Fisher (Miami, 2002)

Las Mocedades De Rodrigo: The Youthful Deeds of Rodrigo, the CidLink opens in a new window, ed. and trans. Matthew Bailey (Toronto, 2016)

Molière, Don JuanLink opens in a new window, trans. Kenneth McLeish (London, 2015)

Molina, Tirso de, The Trickster of Seville and the Stone GuestLink opens in a new window, trans. Gwynne Edwards (Oxford, 1986) [For Don Juan]

The Song of the CidLink opens in a new window, trans. Burton Raffel, Burton and ed. Maria Rosa Menocal (Harmondsworth, 2009)

The Italian States

Calvino, Italo, Italian FolktalesLink opens in a new window, trans. George Martin (Harmondsworth, 2000)

Collodi, Carlo, PinocchioLink opens in a new window (London, 2012)

Gonzenbach, Laura, The Robber with a Witch's Head: More Stories from the Great Treasury of Sicilian Folk and Fairy TalesLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window, ed. and trans.Jack Zipes (London, 2004)

Pirandello, Luigi, Stories for the YearsLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window, ed. and trans. Virginia Jewiss (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020)

Pitré, Giuseppe, The Collected Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales of Giuseppe PitréLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window, ed. and trans. Jack Zipes and Joseph Russo (London: Taylor & Francis, 2008)

Sami

Hatt, Emilie Demant, By the Fire: Sami Folktales and LegendsLink opens in a new window, trans. Barbara Sjoholm (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019)

Slavic

The Russian Primary Chronicle: Laurentian TextLink opens in a new window, ed. and trans. Samuel Hazzard Cross and Olgerd P. Shobowitz-Wetzor (Cambridge, Mass., 1930)

The Song of Igor's Campaign: An Epic of the Twelfth CenturyLink opens in a new window, trans. Vladimir Nabokov (London, 1961)

Secondary Sources

Arthurian Romances

Archibald, Elizabeth, and Ad Putter, eds, The Cambridge Companion to the Arthurian LegendLink opens in a new window (Cambridge, 2009)

Brewer, Derek, and Jonathan Gibson, eds, A Companion to the Gawain-poetLink opens in a new window (Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1997)

Fulton, Helen, ed., A Companion to Arthurian LiteratureLink opens in a new window (Chichester, 2009)

Lupack, Alan, The Oxford Guide to Arthurian Literature and LegendLink opens in a new window (Oxford, 2005)

Putter, Ad, An Introduction to the Gawain-poetLink opens in a new window (Abingdon, Oxon, 1996)

Celtic

Aldhouse-Green, Miranda J., The Celtic Myths: A Guide to the Ancient Gods and LegendsLink opens in a new window (London, 2015)

Fee, Christopher R., and David A. Leeming, Gods, Heroes & Kings: The Battle for Mythic BritainLink opens in a new window (Oxford, 2001)

MacCulloch, J. A., The Religion of the Ancient CeltsLink opens in a new window (London, 2005)

MacKillop, James, Myths and Legends of the CeltsLink opens in a new window (Harmondsworth, 2006)

Markey, Anne, 'The Discovery of Irish Folklore', New Hibernia Review 10: 4 (2006), 21-43

Ó hÓgáin, Dáithí, The Lore of Ireland: An Encyclopaedia of Myth, Legend and RomanceLink opens in a new window (Cork, 2006)

Ó Súilleabháin, Seán, A Handbook of Irish Folklore (Dublin, 1942)

Walsham, Alexandra, 'Recording Superstition in Early Modern Britain: The Origins of Folklore', Past & Present 199, supplement 3 (2008), 178–206

Williams, Mark, Ireland's Immortals: A History of the Gods of Irish MythLink opens in a new window (Princeton, NJ, 2016)

Wood, Juliette, 'Folk Narrative Research in Wales at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century: The Influence of John Rhŷs (1840-1916)Link opens in a new windowLink opens in a new windoLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window', Folklore 116:3 (2005), 325-341,

Wood, Juliette, 'Perceptions of the Past in Welsh Folklore StudiesLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window', Folklore 108:1-2, (1997), 93-102

Finnish

Siikala, Anna-Leena, 'The Kalevalaic Tradition as Finnish Mythology', Ethnographica et Folkloristica Carpathica 12-13Link opens in a new window (2002), 107-122

French

Burland, Margaret, Strange Words: Retelling and Reception in the Medieval Roland Textual TraditionLink opens in a new window (Notre Dame, IN, 2007)

Hopkin, David M, Voices of the People in Nineteenth-Century FranceLink opens in a new window (Cambridge, 2012)

Germanic and Norse

Davidson, H. R. Ellis, The Lost Beliefs of Northern EuropeLink opens in a new window (London, 1993)

Deats, Sara Munson, The Faust Legend: From Marlowe and Goethe to Contemporary Drama and FilmLink opens in a new window (Cambridge, 2019)

Fee, Christopher R., and David A. Leeming, Gods, Heroes & Kings: The Battle for Mythic BritainLink opens in a new window (Oxford, 2001)

Lindow, John, 'Eddic Poetry and Mythology', in A Handbook to Eddic Poetry: Myths and Legends of Early ScandinaviaLink opens in a new window, ed. Carolyne Larrington, et al. (Cambridge, 2016), 114-131

Lindow, John, Norse Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Heroes, Rituals, and BeliefsLink opens in a new window (Oxford, 2001)

Orchard, Andy, 'Beowulf', in The Cambridge Companion to Old English LiteratureLink opens in a new window, ed. Malcolm Godden and Michael Lapidge, 2nd ed. (Cambridge, 2013), 137-158

Orton, Peter, 'Pagan Myth and Religion', in A Companion to Old Norse-Icelandic Literature and CultureLink opens in a new window, ed. Rory McTurk, 2nd ed. (Oxford, 2004), 302-319

Watt, Ian, Myths of Modern Individualism: Faust, Don Quixote, Don Juan, Robinson CrusoeLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window (Cambridge, 1996)

Greek and Roman

Bremmer, J. N., and N. M. Horsfall, 'Roman Myth and MythographyLink opens in a new window', Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, suppl. 52 (1987)

Dowden, Ken, and Niall Livingstone, eds, A Companion to Greek MythologyLink opens in a new window (Chichester, 2011)

Dowden, Ken, Religion and the RomansLink opens in a new window (London, 1990)

Hard, Robin, ed., The Routledge Handbook of Greek MythologyLink opens in a new window, 8th ed. (Milton, 2019)

Iberian

Heusch, Carlos, 'The Construction of the Cidian MythLink opens in a new window', Cahiers d’études hispaniques médiévales 40 (2017), 229-236.

Watt, Ian, Myths of Modern Individualism: Faust, Don Quixote, Don Juan, Robinson CrusoeLink opens in a new window (Cambridge, 1996)

The Italian States

Ferraro, Eveljn, ‘"La tradizione è come il mare": Giuseppe Pitrè’s Transnational Approach to Folk and Fairy Tales in the New ItalyLink opens in a new window', Italian Studies, 77/3 (2022), 271-283.

Gonzenbach, Laura, The Robber with a Witch's Head: More Stories from the Great Treasury of Sicilian Folk and Fairy TalesLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window, ed. and trans.Jack Zipes (London, 2004)

Pirandello, Luigi, Stories for the YearsLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window, ed. and trans. Virginia Jewiss (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020)

Pitré, Giuseppe, The Collected Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales of Giuseppe PitréLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window, ed. and trans. Jack Zipes and Joseph Russo (London: Taylor & Francis, 2008)

Slavic

Kononenko, Natalie, Ukrainian Epic and Historical Song: Folklore in ContextLink opens in a new window (Toronto, 2019)

Lesiv, Mariya, The Return of Ancestral Gods: Modern Ukrainian Paganism as an Alternative Vision for a NationLink opens in a new window (Montreal, 2013) [Chapter 2]