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- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
9 July 2008
Summary
” ‘Dear holy cleric,’ they said, ‘these old warriors tell you no more than a third of their stories, because their memories are faulty. Have these stories written down on poets’ tablets in refined language, so that the hearing of them will provide entertainment for the lords and commons of later times.’ The angels then left them.”
Tales of the Elders of Ireland is the first complete translation of the late Middle Irish Acallam na Senórach, the largest literary text s…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780199549856 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0199549850 |
| Author: | Ann Dooley, Harry Roe |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 9 July 2008 |
| Weight: | 213g |
| Dimensions: | 14mm x 129mm x 197mm |
| Series: | Oxford World's Classics |
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Critics Review
“One of the masterpieces of the second millennium” Paul Muldoon, TLS December, 1999
`” an eminently readable translation … . Dooley and Roe include an excellent introduction … . They also include a very helpful guide to the pronunciation of Irish names, … . This work will be of considerable value to those working in medieval Celtic studies, as well as in folklore and mythology or comparative literature”‘James E. Doan, Irish Studies Review, Vol.8 No.3 2000
Ann Dooley
Dooley is Director of the Celtic Studies Programme and teacher at the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto.
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