A Reading book in Irish History for Fourth Standard
A Reading book in Irish History for Fourth Standard
P W Patrick Weston Joyce
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") OF the tale called the " Voyage of Maildune, " the oldest copy is in the Book of the Dun Cow, which was copied from older books eight hundred years ago : but here the story is imperfect at both the beginning and end, portions of the book having been torn away at some former time. There is, however, a perfect copy in the Yellow Book of Lecan. * It was translated and published for the first time in " Old Celtic Eomances " in 1879. When this book appeared, the great English poet, Alfred Tennyso...n (afterwards Lord Tennyson), read the story, and made it the subject of a beautiful poem, also called ' The Voyage of Maildune. " Portions of the begin- ning and end of this poem are here given : I. I was the chief of the race he had stricken my father dead But I gather 'd my fellows together, I swore I would strike off his head. * For the Book of the Dun Cow and the Yellow Book of Lecan, see p. 118. TENNYSON'S "VOYAGE OF MAILDUNE. " 165 Each of them looked like a king, and was noble in birth as in worth, And each of them boasted he sprang from the oldest race upon earth.
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