An Irish Precursor to Dante: A Study on the Vision of Heaven and Hell, Ascribed to the Eighth-Century Irish Saint, Adamnán

Under the title of "An Irish Precursor of Dante," there has been published recently a study of the vision of Heaven and Hell, ascribed to the Eighth Century Irish Saint Adamnan, with a translation of the Irish text by C. S. Boswell. In the introduction the author says: "The main subject of the poem, the visit of a living man, in person or in vision, to the world of the dead, and his report of what he had seen and heard there, belongs to a class of world-myths than which few arc more widely ...