The Otherworld Voyage in Early Irish Literature: An Anthology of CriticismFour Courts Press, 2000 - 289 oldal Nineteen articles provide a critical overview of the voyage genre in early Irish literature. It was a time when tales of journeys to an otherworld or paradise were common, evoking a powerful vision of the Irish as pilgrims and exiles. The widely scattered and often obscurely published secondary lite |
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102. oldal
... reference to his desire for sexual intercourse is shown by a passage in the Táin Bó Cúailnge.36 Cú Chulainn has secured an agreement with Ailill and Medb by which he fights their warriors one by one and their army cannot move while he ...
... reference to his desire for sexual intercourse is shown by a passage in the Táin Bó Cúailnge.36 Cú Chulainn has secured an agreement with Ailill and Medb by which he fights their warriors one by one and their army cannot move while he ...
158. oldal
... reference in the text which prophesies a forthcoming persecution of Christians , Orlandi argues that this may be identified with the Viking raids on Ireland , and that the author must have been writing after the raids had begun.4 ...
... reference in the text which prophesies a forthcoming persecution of Christians , Orlandi argues that this may be identified with the Viking raids on Ireland , and that the author must have been writing after the raids had begun.4 ...
215. oldal
... reference at the start to the setting in the late eighth century , the king reigning being the Clann Cholmáin dynast Donnchad Midi son of Domnall , 763-97 . Other useful references are to the altar of Colum Cille , and to the saints ...
... reference at the start to the setting in the late eighth century , the king reigning being the Clann Cholmáin dynast Donnchad Midi son of Domnall , 763-97 . Other useful references are to the altar of Colum Cille , and to the saints ...
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