Page 125: The quotation from Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Life of Merlin (Vita Merlini) is from the translation by John Jay Parry, University of Illinois Press, 1925.

Page 147: I have adapted the quotation from Völuspá (Seeress’s Prophecy) using The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson, translated from the original Old Norse text into English by Benjamin Thorpe, London/Stockholm/Copenhagen/Berlin/New York, 1906, and Henry Adams Bellows’s translation in The Poetic Edda: translated from the Icelandic with an Introduction and Notes, American-Scandinavian Foundation, 1926 (1923).

Page 172: My translation of the lines from On the Great Giants (Des Grantz Geanz) is inspired by Lesley Johnson’s essay ‘Return to Albion’ in Arthurian Literature 13, Boydell & Brewer, 1995. The quotation from Boccaccio is taken from the translation by Guido A. Guarino, On Famous Women (De Claris Mulieribus), Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 1963.

Page 201: The quotation from Malory is taken from Eugène Vinaver, Malory Works, Oxford University Press, 1954/1971. The quotation from Thomas More’s Utopia is from the translation by Paul Turner, Penguin, 1965.

Page 221: I quote from A. C. Hamilton’s edition of Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene, Longman, 1977; Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor’s edition of William Shakespeare’s The Complete Works, Oxford University Press, 1988; and the RSC edition of John Fletcher’s The Island Princess, Nick Hern Books, 2002.

Page 245: When quoting from Margaret Cavendish’s The Convent of Pleasure, London, 1668, I used Anne Shaver’s edition published by John Hopkins University Press in 1999. A Discovery of Fonseca in a Voyage to Surranam. The Island so long sought for in the Western Ocean. Inhabited by Women with the Account of their Habits, Customs and Religion. And the Exact Longitude and Latitude of the Place taken from the Mouth of a Person cast away on the Place in an Hurricane with the Account of their being Cast away, Dublin, 1682, is included in Gregory Claeys’ Restoration and Augustan British Utopias, Syracuse University Press, 2000, along with the speculation that it was written by John Shirley. Reverend George Tulloch’s 1845 account of the island of Handa is from The Statistical Accounts of Scotland 1971–1845, ‘Edderachillis’, County of Sutherland, Vol. XV, p. 132. ‘Togail an Teine’ is taken from Alexander Carmichael’s Carmina Gadelica: Hymns and Incantations, with illustrative notes on words, rites, and customs, dying and obsolete, orally collected in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland and translated into English, Edinburgh, 1900.

Page 271: Excerpt from Robert Graves, The White Goddess, Faber and Faber, 1948 (1961), pp. 67–68, reproduced with permission from the Robert Graves Copyright Trust. Thanks to the University of Chicago Press for permission to quote from Carl Darling Buck’s A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal European Languages. Copyright 1949 by the University of Chicago. Many thanks to Semiotext(e) for permission to quote from Gilles Deleuze’s ‘Desert Islands’ in Desert Islands and Other Texts 1953–1974, translated by Michael Taormina, Semiotext(e), 2004.