1. The Tain as a Mythology
... century (Hazard, Benjamin James. JSTOR. N.p., n.d. Web. 03 Mar. 2015). The works illustrated the social role fulfilled by "hereditary" learned families in Gaelic Ireland; sixteenth-century scribes had the early manuscripts and copied them. The volume is known as the London, British Library, MS Egerton 1782 which retains examples of the earliest vernacular Irish narrative, possibly such as those that ... . John J. Fisher wrote about the form and the genesis of the The Tain, and he believes that there are few formal parallels in the early Middle Ages in the TheTain that do not match any c...
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