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PD19: Poetry and Storytelling - The Druid Network

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Celtic culture, like many old tribal cultures, was and remains alive with a wealth of stories, legends, anecdotes and tales. That each new generation should have learnt the tales was vitally important, as the stories contained their very sense of identity. A people without stories is a people without a history, without a sense of who they are or where they are going. The possession of eloquence was seen as a gift as important to a warrior (let alone a druid) as swordsmanship or archery. The Fenechus tells us: “Speech is given to three: to the historian-poet for the narration and relating of tales, to the poet-seer for praise and satire, and to the Brehon for giving judgement.” One of the drawbacks we face as modern Druids is that the recordings of our myths did not take place until quite late, and then was done by members of a hostile religion. The Greeks, Romans and Egyptians were lucky enough to be have most of their myths recorded by people who actually believed in them, before mono

PD19: Poetry and Storytelling - The Druid Network Skip to content PD19: Poetry and Storytelling Lesson Nineteen ~ Poetry and Storytelling Celtic culture, like many old tribal cultures, was and remains alive with a wealth of stories, legends, anecdotes and tales. That each new generation should have learnt the tales was vitally important, as the stories contained their very sense of identity. A people without stories is a people without a history, without a sense of who they are or where they are going. The possession of eloquence was seen as a gift as important to a warrior (let alone a druid)

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