Tales of the Elders of Ireland (Oxford World's Classics)
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Translator: Ann DooleyTranslator: Harry Roe
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1999-11-11
ISBN: 0192839187
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Summary of Tales of the Elders of Ireland (Oxford World's Classics)
Tales of the Elders of Ireland is the first complete translation of the late Middle-Irish Acallam na Senorach, 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 and souls rescued from Hell; the earlier pagan world of the ancient, giant Fenians and Irish kings; and the parallel, timeless Otherworld (peopled by ever-young, shape-shifting fairies). This readable, lucid new translation is based on existing manuscript sources and is richly annotated, complete with an Introduction discussing the place of the Acallam in Irish tradition and the impact of the Fenian or Ossianic tradition on English and European literature.Classics Books
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