Irish sagas / edited by Myles Dillon

"These essays where originally broadcast as a series of Thomas Davis lectures"

The editor and ten other leading Celtic scholars provide an introduction to the prose tales of ancient Ireland. Through their translations of these heroic sagas a vivid picture emerges of the worlds of the mythological cycle, with stories of the pre-Christian gods; the Ulster cycle of tales of great warriors; the Fenian cycle of inspiring noble youth; and the kingly cycle in which some historical figures have been vested with the immortality of legend