Excerpt from Three Irish Bardic Tales: Being Metrical Versions of the Three Tales Known as the Three Sorrows of Story-Telling Two of the following poems are reprinted from a former volume, the third Tbe Fate of tbe Son: of Uma -now appears for the first time. They are founded upon the three Bardic Tales traditionally known in Ireland as the Three Sorrows of story-telling.' In telling again these old stories, I have freely rehandled my materiais - not following precisely any one of the many versions of each legend, but ...
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Excerpt from Three Irish Bardic Tales: Being Metrical Versions of the Three Tales Known as the Three Sorrows of Story-Telling Two of the following poems are reprinted from a former volume, the third Tbe Fate of tbe Son: of Uma -now appears for the first time. They are founded upon the three Bardic Tales traditionally known in Ireland as the Three Sorrows of story-telling.' In telling again these old stories, I have freely rehandled my materiais - not following precisely any one of the many versions of each legend, but appmpriating and adopting whatever best suited my purpose in each. Thus, in Tb: Fate of tbc Son; of Uma, ' I have retained the old ending of the tale, which makes Deirdre live for a year after the death of her lover, a captive in the house of Conchobar because it seems to me to be an essen tial part of the primitive legend, and to touch a deeper note of tragedy than that adopted by Joyce in his deirdre, ' in which she dies upon the grave. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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