Oxford World´s Classics Tales of the Elders of Ireland
Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199549856
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nové vydání klasické anglické četby "'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 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. It also provides the most
extensive account available of the inhabitants of the Irish Otherworld
- their music and magic, their internecine wars and their malice
toward, and infatuation with, humankind - themes still featured in the
story-telling of present-day Ireland.
This readable and flowing 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.
Readership: Undergraduate or graduate courses in Celtic Studies, Irish Studies, Medieval Studies, Religious and Mythological Studies, Comparative Literature, Folklore. Will be of interest to all those studying Yeats.
- Výrobce
- Oxford University Press
- Jazyk
- Angličtina
- Autor
- Dooley (ed.)
- Obsah
- kniha
- Rok vydání
- 2008
- Počet stran
- 304