Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Maps
  • Chapter 1: Introduction
  • Part I: THEMES
  • Chapter 2: The Semantics of síd
  • Chapter 3: Pagan Survivals
  • Chapter 4: The Concept of the Hero in Irish Mythology
  • Chapter 5: The Sister's Son in Early Irish Literature
  • Chapter 6: Curse and Satire
  • Chapter 7: The Threefold Death in Early Irish Sources
  • Chapter 8: Early Irish Literature and Law
  • Part II: TEXTS
  • The Cycles of the Gods and Goddesses
  • Chapter 9: Cath Maige Tuired as Exemplary Myth
  • Chapter 10: The Eponym of CnogbaChapter 11: Knowledge and Power in Aislinge Óenguso
  • Chapter 12: "The Wooing of Étaín"
  • The Ulster Cycle
  • Chapter 13: Táin Bó Cúailnge
  • Chapter 14: Mythology in Táin Bó Cúailnge
  • Chapter 15: Táin Bó Cúailnge and Early Irish Law
  • Chapter 16: Sírrabad Súaltaim and the Order of Speaking among the Ulaid
  • Chapter 17: Ailill and Medb
  • Chapter 18: Cú Chulainn, the Poets, and Giolla Brighde Mac Con Midhe
  • Chapter 19: Reflections on Compert Conchobuir and Serglige Con Culainn
  • The Cycles of the King
  • Chapter 20: "The Expulsion of the Déisi"Chapter 21: On the LU Version of "The Expulsion of the Déisi"
  • Chapter 22: The Déisi and Dyfed
  • Chapter 23: The Theme of lommrad in Cath Maige Mucrama
  • Chapter 24: The Theme of ainmne in Scéla Cano meic Gartnáin
  • Chapter 25: The Rhetoric of Scéla Cano meic Gartnáin
  • Chapter 26: The Rhetoric of Fingal Rónáin
  • Chapter 27: On the Cín Dromma Snechta Version of Togail Brudne Uí Dergae
  • Chapter 28: Gat and díberg inTogail Bruidne Da Derga
  • Chapter 29: The Oldest Story of the Laigin
  • Chapter 30: Sound and Sense in Cath AlmaineThe Fenian Cycle
  • Chapter 31: Tóraíocht Dhiarmada agus Ghráinne
  • The Pursuit of Diarmaid and Gráinne
  • Further Reading
  • Notes
  • Bibliography of Tomás Ó Cathasaigh
  • Works Cited
  • Index