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The High Deeds of Finn: And Other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland

The High Deeds of Finn: And Other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland

Brooke, Stopford A. a.
Rolleston, T. W.

Paperback

Series: Irish History

General Poetry

ISBN10: 1979880492
ISBN13: 9781979880497
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Nov 19 2017
Pages: 116
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.24 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.02
Language: English
The High Deeds of Finn And Other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland by T. W. Rolleston. Many years have passed by since, delivering the Inaugural Lecture of the Irish Literary Society in London, I advocated as one of its chief aims the recasting into modern form and in literary English of the old Irish legends, preserving the atmosphere of the original tales as much as possible, but clearing them from repetitions, redundant expressions, idioms interesting in Irish but repellent in English, and, above all, from absurdities, such as the sensational fancy of the later editors and bards added to the simplicities of the original tales. The romantic tales here retold for the English reader belong neither to the category of folk-lore nor of myth, although most of them contain elements of both. They belong, like the tales of Cuchulain, which have been similarly presented by Miss Hull, to the bardic literature of ancient Ireland, a literature written with an artistic purpose by men who possessed in the highest degree the native culture of their land and time. The aim with which these men wrote is also that which has been adopted by their present interpreter. I have not tried, in this volume, to offer to the scholar materials for the study of Celtic myth or folk-lore.

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