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Tales of the Elders of Ireland
by
Ann Dooley ,
Harry Roe
Tales of the Elders of Ireland is the first complete translation of the late Middle-Irish Acallam na Sen rach, the largest literary text surviving from twelfth-century Ireland. It contains the earliest and most comprehensive collection of Fenian stories and poetry, intermingling the contemporary Christian world of Saint Patrick with his scribes; clerics; occasional angels...more
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Published
November 11th 1999
by Oxford University Press, USA
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I am an undergraduate and I recently read this one for my British Literature 1 class. We read the entire thing, and we were also required to learn a story very well and tell it to the class. I admit I found the book difficult to read and very repetitive at times, but there were aspects that I really enjoyed. My favorite story (and the one that I chose to tell in class) was the story of how Finn mac Cumhaill came to be the chieftain of the Fiana. The aspect that made this book the most difficult...more
For someone who goes out of her way to read and translate Irish and Welsh mythology, well, it took me forever to get to this. Now I remember why. This material--not the translation, mind you, but the material itself--makes me want to shake people really really hard. The text was transcribed in either the 12th or 13th century, which is part of the problem. Because, you know, this version was recorded so much further from the historical source material, and thus pretty terribly corrupted.
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Very interesting as being the oldest surviving version of the Irish heroic legends. Also notable for the generally friendly relationship between the Christian and pre-Christian cultures in Ireland as depicted in these legends.
The basic pattern of the stories is that Cailte, one of the few survivors of the Irish heroic age, is traveling around Ireland, most of the time with St. Patrick, and when they reach a landmark --often, though not always, a gravemound--
Cailte tells Patrick's party the story...more
The basic pattern of the stories is that Cailte, one of the few survivors of the Irish heroic age, is traveling around Ireland, most of the time with St. Patrick, and when they reach a landmark --often, though not always, a gravemound--
Cailte tells Patrick's party the story...more
Scholarly and valuable.
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