Bibliography

The Folklore of the Wild Huntand the Furious Host by Kveldulf Hagen Gundarsson,
from Mountain Thunder, Issue 7, Winter 1992.
(first presented as a lecture to the Cambridge Folklore Society at the house of Dr. H.R. Ellis-Davidson)

Brunk, August. "Der wilde Jager im Glauben des pommerschen Volkes", Zeitschrift des Vereins für Volkskunde XIII, 1903, pp. 179-192.

Celander, Hilding. "Oskoreien ok besläkade forestall-ningar I äldre och nyare nordisk tradition", Saga och sed 1942, pp. 71-175.

Elke, Christine N.F. "Oskoreia og ekstaseriter", Norveg 23, 1980, pp. 277-309

Feilberg, H.F. "Hvorledes opstar Sagn I vore Dagar?", Dania II, 1892-4, pp. 81-126. Feilberg, H.F. Jul (2nd ed, 2 vols).

Ruben A. Koman, Dalfser Muggen Profiel, Bedum 2006

Jeffrey Burton Russell, Witchcraft in the Middle Ages (London: Cornell University Press, 1972) p49 note.

William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Act IV, Scene IV in The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Ed. W J Craig (Oxford University Press, 1987) p75.

Charles Squire The Mythology of the British Islands: An Introduction to Celtic Myth, Legend, Poetry and Romance (London: Wordsworth Editions, Ltd, 2000) p155.

Doreen Valiente Witchcraft for Tomorrow (London: Robert Hale Limited, 1978, 2002 reprint) p51. This page deals with the representation of the Wild Hunt performed by Ms Valiente and others, and of its history as connected to Witchcraft.

Man, Myth, and Magic, vols. 10 & 22 (Cavendish; NY, 1070)

The Minor Traditions of British Mythology- Lewis Spence (Benjamin Blom; NY 1972)
Ghosts In The Middle Ages- Jean-Claude Schmitt (Univ. of Chicago Press; Chicago, 1998)

Gods and Myths of Northern Europe- H.R. Ellis Davidson (Penguin; 1964)
John Masefield's poem, 'The Hounds of Hell,' in GHOSTS, ed. by Marvin Kaye (Doubleday; NY, 1981)

The Wild Hunt in fiction

William Butler Yeats evoked the Wild Hunt in "The Hosting of the Sidhe", the opening poem in his collection inspired by Gaelic faery lore, The Celtic Twilight (1893, 1903)

The Wild Hunt, presided by Arawn and run by the Cwn Annwn, are a key plot point in Diana Wynne Jones's 1975 fantasy novel Dogsbody.

Legends of the Wild Hunt have been used by science fiction author Julian May in her series "Saga of Pliocene Exile (British series title, Saga of the Exiles)."
Peter Beagle's novel Tamsin has the Wild Hunt as one of the main themes, along with some other Celtic beliefs.

Similarly, Nigel Kneale tied the legend to a racial memory introduced by prehistoric Martian attempts at colonizing Earth in the famous television serial Quatermass and the Pit.

In the 1940s, Stan Jones encoded the story of the Wild Hunt in his country song "(Ghost) Riders in the Sky" (song written some time around 1948), which transposes the story to a group of cowboys who chase the devil's herd of cattle through the night skies, tormented by madness and thirst.

In Susan Cooper's series The Dark is Rising, the Hunt is led by Herne the Hunter and is responsible for driving back the Dark (the enemy in the series), after seeing the six signs collected by Will Stanton, one of the main characters.

The Wild Hunt also appears in the classic computer game "Darklands" as a recurring event.

In Mercedes Lackey's urban fantasy novel The Chrome Circle, protagonist and human mage Tannim and his companion in the book, the half-kitsune, half-dragon Shar encounter the Wild Hunt in their attempts to escape the darker, more evil-controlled pockets of Underhill.