A Literary History of Ireland : From Earliest Times to the Present Day
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That the pictures of social life and early society drawn in the Irish romances represent phases not common to the Irish alone, but to large portions of that Celtic race which once owned so much of Europe, may be surmised with some certainty from the way in which characteristics of the Celts barely mentioned by Greek and Roman writers re-appear amongst the Irish in all the intimate detail and fond expansion ' Preface to " L']£popee Celtique en Irlande." 254 LITERARY HISTORY OF IRELAND of romance.... M. d'Arbois de Jubainville has drawn attention to many such instances. Posidonius, who was a friend of Cicero, and wrote about a hundred years before Christ, mentions a custom which existed in Gaul in his time of fighting at a feast for the best bit which was to be given to the most valiant warrior. This custom, briefly noticed by Posidonius, might be passed by unnoticed by the ordinary reader, but the Irish one will remember the early romances of his race in which the curadh-mir or " heroes bit " so largely figures.
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