Fantasy with actual Celtic druids?
Peter Knutsen
hippie tree-huggers that call themselves druids and happes to know the
exact same spells as D&D says that druids know.
Druids in historical fantasy would make the most sense, but
non-historical fantasy is welcome as well.
I tried English Wikipedia, and finally managed to find a list-of-druids,
but the only druid in the "fictional" section was Getafix, the druid
from the Asterix comics. That wasn't very helpful.
There are druids in Bradley's "Mists of Avalon", and there's Taliesin in
Bradshaw's "Hawk of May" except he's only a bard, not a druid (druids
are also referred to in one of Bradshaw's historicals, but they never
appear on-screen). I can't really recall any others at all...
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Peter Knutsen
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David DeLaney
>Where are the druids, in written fantasy? And I mean *real* druids; not
>hippie tree-huggers that call themselves druids and happes to know the
>exact same spells as D&D says that druids know.
>There are druids in Bradley's "Mists of Avalon", and there's Taliesin in
>Bradshaw's "Hawk of May" except he's only a bard, not a druid (druids
>are also referred to in one of Bradshaw's historicals, but they never
>appear on-screen). I can't really recall any others at all...
Are you counting the ones ... I'm sure they're there, though I don't remember
them precisely ... in Patricia Kennealy(-Morrison)'s series?
David Farland has druidish wizards...
Dave
Cece
Are there Druids in Anderson's King of Ys series?
What about the second book of the Centurion series by Damion Hunter
(real name Amanda Cockrell), Barbarian Princess?
Dorothy J Heydt
There's Balasius in Mary Stewart's _The Crystal Cave._ A real
creep.
Dorothy J. Heydt
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Johnny Tindalos
$1472...@news.sunsite.dk:
There might be some in Robert Holdstock's Celtica series (well, there are
various Celts in it...) but I haven't finished the third volume (which
had *lots* of Celts, I think) and I can't recall whether there are any
actual druids in the series; I'm afraid it wasn't as good as it often
gave the impression that it could have been.
Andrew Plotkin
> Where are the druids, in written fantasy? And I mean *real* druids; not
> hippie tree-huggers that call themselves druids and happes to know the
> exact same spells as D&D says that druids know.
A druid wanders by in John M. Ford's _Growing Up Weightless_. Also
_Web of Angels_.
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Garrett Wollman
Madeleine L'Engle, /An Acceptable Time/, if memory serves me
correctly.
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David DeLaney
>Peter Knutsen <pe...@sagatafl.invalid> wrote:
>>Where are the druids, in written fantasy? And I mean *real* druids;
>
>Madeleine L'Engle, /An Acceptable Time/, if memory serves me correctly.
Oh, oh, and a much more recent series, ... hang on, lemme read through
part of my booklist ...
<time passes; Dave starts reading backwards>
Okay, by Mark del Franco, two books so far: unshapely things, unquiet dreams
- Connor Grey is a magically-crippled druid who's investigating Stuff, and
there's entire organizations of druids nearby, and they're not typical D&D
druids _or_ the oldstyle Celtic 'sacrifice them when needed and the gods will
sort things out' druids either.
(You know you have Too Many Books when you can get an idea of where to start
looking in your booklist by visualizing approximately _where_ in Waldenbooks
you generally see the book in question.)
Dave
PS: I need more Holt.
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Elaine Thompson
I'm pretty sure there's one in John Myers Myers _Moon's Fire-Eating
Daughter_. And I know there's one in the same author's vaguely
historical novel _Harp and Blade_. (He's sort of why the story
happens, IIRC.)
GG Kay's YSABEL has one.
There ought to be one in Mildred Downey Broxon's _Too Long a
Sacrifice_ as well as in Jo Walton's _Prize in the Game_ but I don't
remember any actually being in either of those.
Any retelling of the Deirdre story should have at least one druid.
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Gene
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> Garrett Wollman <wol...@bimajority.org> wrote:
>>Peter Knutsen <pe...@sagatafl.invalid> wrote:
>>>Where are the druids, in written fantasy? And I mean *real* druids;
>>
>>Madeleine L'Engle, /An Acceptable Time/, if memory serves me correctly.
>
> Oh, oh, and a much more recent series, ... hang on, lemme read through
* part of my booklist ...
OK, now where are the Druish princesses in written fantasy?
mimus
They feature as part of the various societies in Vance's "Lyonesse"
trilogy, _Suldrun's Garden_, _The Green Pearl_ and _Madouc_.
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thinking of its name.
Gene
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> I remember a novel where Queen Victoria is a Druid queen. I'm not
> thinking of its name.
And proceeded to give birth to five Druish princesses. Good job.
Bill Snyder
If she's romantically involved with Doctor Watson, that would be
Esther Friesner's _Druid's Blood_.
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Lawrence Watt-Evans
wrote:
>I remember a novel where Queen Victoria is a Druid queen. I'm not
>thinking of its name.
_Druid's Blood_, by Esther M. Friesner.
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BP
>Where are the druids, in written fantasy? And I mean *real* druids; not
>hippie tree-huggers that call themselves druids and happes to know the
>exact same spells as D&D says that druids know.
>
>Druids in historical fantasy would make the most sense, but
>non-historical fantasy is welcome as well.
One or more books of Katherine Kurtz's "Adept" series featured druids
as the bad guys.
BP
ncw...@hotmail.com
> Where are the druids, in written fantasy? And I mean *real* druids; not
> hippie tree-huggers that call themselves druids and happes to know the
> exact same spells as D&D says that druids know.
>
Some druids feature in Pratchett's _The Light Fantastic_ . Also the
character Imp y Celyn from _Soul Music_ has a druidic/celtic-like
background.
Cheers,
Nigel.
dul...@yahoo.com
Try the _Tros of Samothrace_ series by Talbot Mundy if you can find
them. His ideas about the druids
are coloured by his Blavatskyian beliefes, but they certainly aren't
tree-huggers.
T.
William George Ferguson
Since nobody has mentioned it yet, druids figure (not all that favorably)
in Evangeline Walton's Prince of Annwn.
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Jaimie Vandenbergh
wrote:
>On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:48:43 +0200, Peter Knutsen wrote:
>
>> Where are the druids, in written fantasy? And I mean *real* druids; not
>> hippie tree-huggers that call themselves druids and happes to know the
>> exact same spells as D&D says that druids know.
>>
>> Druids in historical fantasy would make the most sense, but
>> non-historical fantasy is welcome as well.
>>
>>
>> I tried English Wikipedia, and finally managed to find a list-of-druids,
>> but the only druid in the "fictional" section was Getafix, the druid
>> from the Asterix comics. That wasn't very helpful.
>>
>> There are druids in Bradley's "Mists of Avalon", and there's Taliesin in
>> Bradshaw's "Hawk of May" except he's only a bard, not a druid (druids
>> are also referred to in one of Bradshaw's historicals, but they never
>> appear on-screen). I can't really recall any others at all...
>
>They feature as part of the various societies in Vance's "Lyonesse"
>trilogy, _Suldrun's Garden_, _The Green Pearl_ and _Madouc_.
Only barely, I don't recall them ever coming "on-screen" as it were.
Cheers - Jaimie
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Scott Lurndal
There are also druids in IIRC Stewart's _The Hollow Hills_ (and perhaps
the _Last Enchantment_).
scott
Moriarty
"The Way of Wyrd" (subtitled "Tales of an Anglo-Saxon Sorcerer") by
Brian Bates about a Christian monk/priest who undergoes druidic
initiation rites c400AD. It certainly fits what you're looking for.
My copy was published in 1983 and according to bookfinder it was
republished in 2005.
-Moriarty
Moriarty
Oops. Except for the 'Celtic' part obviously.
-Moriarty
Vampyre
It's been a while, but I'm pretty sure Merlin was portrayed as a druid
in Bernard Cornwell's Excalibur series.
Also, I think there was a tiny bit of druid action in the Videssos
Cycle.