The Druid Scholar

HISTORY

• Barry Cunliffe, THE CELTIC WORLD – https://archive.org/details/celticworld0000cunl
• Miranda Green, THE WORLD OF THE DRUIDS – https://archive.org/details/worldofdruids0000aldh 
• John Haywood, THE HISTORICAL ATLAS OF THE CELTIC WORLD
• Fergus Kelly, A GUIDE TO EARLY IRISH LAW
• Bruce Lincoln, DEATH, WAR AND SACRIFICE – https://www.academia.edu/5953566/1993_Bruc
• Alwyn and Brinley Rees, CELTIC HERITAGE – https://archive.org/details/celticheritagean0000rees_g2l6
• Marie Mary-Louise Sjoestedt, GODS AND HEROES OF THE ANCIENT CELTS – https://www.perlego.com/book/110191/celtic-gods-and-heroes-pdf

LITERATURE

• Jeffrey Gantz – EARLY IRISH MYTHS AND SAGAS – https://archive.org/details/earlyirishmythss00jeff
• Christian Guyonvarch – THE MAKING OF A DRUID: HIDDEN TEACHINGS FROM THE COLLOQUOY OF SAGES – https://archive.org/details/makingofdruidh00guyo
• Muireann Ni’ Bhrolcha’in – AN INTRODUCTION TO EARLY IRISH LITERATURE – https://archive.org/details/introductiontoea0000nibh

MODERN AND HISTORICAL DRUIDS

• Jean Markale – DRUIDS: CELTIC PRIESTS OF NATURE – https://archive.org/details/druids00jean
• Ronald Hutton – THE DRUIDS – https://archive.org/details/druids0000hutt
• Ellen Evert Hopman – A LEGACY OF DRUIDS
• Kristoffer Hughes – THE BOOK OF DRUIDRY

AIDS TO CREATING RITUALS

• Alexei Kondratiev, CELTIC RITUALS: AN AUTHENTIC GUIDE TO ANCIENT CELTIC SPIRITUALITY – https://archive.org/details/celticritualsgui0000kond
• Alexander Carmichael, CARMINA GADELICA – https://archive.org/details/carminagadelicah30carm
• Robert Barton, DANCE OF OAK & WREN: RITES OF DRAIOCHT
• Morgan Daimler, BY LAND, SEA AND SKY
• Ellen Evert Hopman, A DRUID’S HERBAL FOR THE SACRED EARTH YEAR

OGHAM

• Danu Forest, CELTIC TREE MAGIC: OGHAM LORE & DRUID MYSTERIES
• Ellen Evert Hopman, A DRUID’S HERBAL OF SACRED TREE MEDICINE
• Erynn Rowan Laurie – WEAVING WORD WISDOM – https://archive.org/details/ogamweavingwordw0000laur

ECOLOGY AND NATURE STUDIES

• Diana Berresford-Kroeger TO SPEAK FOR THE TREES
• Robin Wall Kimmerer BRAIDING SWEETGRASS
• Suzanne Simard FINDING THE MOTHER TREE.

FICTION

• Ellen Evert Hopman, trilogy of Druid novels:
  • PRIESTESS OF THE FOREST
  • THE DRUID ISLE
  • PRIESTESS OF THE FIRE TEMPLE
• Philip Freeman – THE PHILOSOPHER AND THE DRUIDS – https://archive.org/details/philosopherd00free
• Morgan Llywelyn – DRUIDS

Supplemental Reading

• The Hindus – An Alternative History
• Nerys Patterson’s “Cattle Lords and Clansmen”,
• Any of MacNeill’s material‐‐especially the “Silver Bough” volumes and the “Festival of Lughnasadh”
• Gregorson’s “The Gaelic Otherworld”
• Enright’s “Lady with a Mead Cup”
• Brunaux’s “The Celtic Gauls”
• Cunliffe et al., “Celtic from the West”
• CELT – Corpus of Electronic Texts
• Matthews – The Celtic Spirit – Daily Meditations for the Turning Year

Earth Path

I commit to 15 Minutes a week in direct contact with the natural world.