Heroic Romances of Ireland: All Volumes (Illustrated)

*Illustrated with pictures*Includes Table of ContentsA.H. Leahy’s Heroic Romances of Ireland include two volumes of scholarly translations of Irish legends. Although many of the stories in these books center around cattle raids, they have nume... Read more

*Illustrated with pictures*Includes Table of ContentsA.H. Leahy’s Heroic Romances of Ireland include two volumes of scholarly translations of Irish legends. Although many of the stories in these books center around cattle raids, they have numerous supernatural incidents and remnants of pre-Christian religious beliefs.The first volume contains five separate stories: the Courtship of Etain, the Boar of Mac Datho, the Sick-bed of Cuchulain, the Death of the Sons of Usnach (Book of Leinster version), and the Combat at the Ford out of the Book of Leinster version of the Tain bo Cuailnge. Two versions are given of the Courtship of Etain ; and the Sick-bed of Cuchulain.Volume II includes the five Tains or Cattle-Forays of Fraech (Tain bo Fraich), Dartaid (The Raid for Dartaid's Cattle), Regamon (The Raid for the Cattle of Regamon), Flidais (The Driving of the Cattle of Flidais), and Regamna (The Apparition of The Great Queen to Cuchulain); They are all expressly named as fore-tales, remscéla, or preludes to the story of the great war of Cualnge, which is the central event in the Ulster heroic cycle. As an appendix, this book includes the Irish text and literal translation of an incident of the Courtship of Etain, which is translated in the first volume.This edition of A.H. Leahy’s Heroic Romances of Ireland: All Volumes is specially formatted with a Table of Contents and pictures of Ireland and characters from Irish folklore. Less