G Ronald Murphy: 3 books
Gemstone of Paradise
The Holy Grail in Wolfram's Parzival
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2010
The story of the Holy Grail has gripped the imaginations of millions since it first appeared in medieval romances, among them Wolfram von Eschenbach's Middle High German Parzival (c. 1210). Strangely, the Grail is identified in Parzival not as a cup or dish, but as a stone. This oddity is usually...
Tree of Salvation
Yggdrasil and the Cross in the North
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
Winner of the 2014 Mythopoeic Myth & Fantasy Studies Award At the heart of the mythology of the Anglo-Scandinavian-Germanic North is the evergreen Yggdrasil, the tree of life believed to hold up the skies and unite and separate three worlds: Asgard, high in the tree, where the gods dwelled in...
The Owl, The Raven, and the Dove
The Religious Meaning of the Grimms' Magic Fairy Tales
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2000
The fairy tales collected by the brothers Grimm are among the best known and most widely-read stories in western literature. In recent years commentators such as Bruno Bettelheim have, usually from a psychological perspective, pondered the underlying meaning of the stories, why children are so enthralled...