The High Deeds of Finn: And Other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland

The High Deeds of Finn And Other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland by T. W. Rolleston. Many years have passed by since, delivering the Inaugural Lecture of the Irish Literary Society in London, I advocated as one of its chief aims the recasting into modern form and in literary English of the old Irish legends, preserving the atmosphere of the original tales as much as possible, but clearing them from repetitions, redundant expressions, idioms interesting in Irish but repellent in English, ...