Isle of the Dead (mythology)

The Isle of the Dead is a concept from pre-Christian Europe of an island to the west where souls went after death. It is reported as being part of Celtic belief by several Roman historians, and evidence for this belief is also found in Welsh folklore. It also existed in ancient Germanic traditions where the British Isles were sometimes depicted as the isles to the west that the dead inhabited.

For other uses, see Isle of the Dead (disambiguation).
Isle of the Dead as imagined in 1880 by Arnold Böcklin

References
  • Barbara Freitag (2013). Hy Brasil: The Metamorphosis of an Island: From Cartographic Error to Celtic Elysium. Rodopi. p. 103. ISBN 978-94-012-0910-6.


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