i heart cuhulain (probably spelling that wrong) ancient warrior who used a magical spear to fight. loose ties with arthurian legends (morgain<->morrigan). I will try and dig out the book tonight. I think it is called "midieval myths" we used it in history classes in college.

How about The Kalevala. Its Finnish and a good read! :P

Evilmonk is thinking of the Táin Bó Cúailgne, <a href="http://vassun.vassar.edu/~sttaylor/Cooley/>The Cattle Raid of Cooley</a>, an eighth-century Irish epic. For Norse stuff, the Poetic Edda is good fun too.

That's weird; Livejournal chopped off most of my comment. There's an online translation of the Tain here, though I think the one by Thomas Kinsella from Oxford University Press may be a nicer read.

For the Poetic Edda, I have the translation by Lee Hollander from the University of Texas Press and I like that one well enough.

well I think American Gods by Neil Gaiman, would be number 1 as I remember it the best. Not a re-telling of myths per say but it does have alot of mythological characters in it- including Odin.

Just So Stories by Kipling. I have a wonderfully old copy of these stories and rather love them.

Last Call by Tim Powers- It's like American Gods in that it has a mish mash of mythos.

Sorry that's all I have right now... If I remember more I'll try to find my way back here

Joseph Campbell wrote a book called The Hero With a Thousand Faces that's supposed to be pretty good, and a whole series called The Masks of God, which is almost exactly as you describe. I haven't read them yet but they're on my list.