Tales of the Elders of Ireland

Name: Tales of the Elders of Ireland
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ISBN: 9780199549856

ISBN-10: 0199549850

ISBN-13: 9780199549856

Edition: 2008

Authors: Ann Dooley, Harry Roe

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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…

Book details

List price: $14.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/15/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.08" wide x 7.76" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.484

Ann Dooley is an associate professor in the Centre for Medieval Studies and the director of the Program for Celtic Studies at the University of Toronto.