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THE BOOK OF LEmSTER, sometime caUed The Book of " GLE^T)AXOtrGH" : 

 a eolleetion of pieces in the Irish Language, compiled in part about the mid- 

 dle of the twelfth century. From the origiaal MS. in Trioity College, Dublin, with 

 introduction, analysis of contents, and index, by Robert AiKrysoN, M.A., LL.D., 

 Professor of Sanskrit and Comparative Grammar in. the University of DublLa, Secre- 

 tary of Council, Pioyal Irish Academy. 



This MS. forms the third in the series of the great Irish MSS. published by the 

 Royal Irish Academy. 



The Book of Leinster is one of the most important of the fragments of Irish 

 literature that have come down to us. In addition to copies of the native prose his- 

 toric accounts of the Tain Bo Cualnge, the Borama, &c., it contains a large fragment 

 of an early prose translation of the Historia de Excidio Troiae of Dares Phrygius : 

 a great number of the poems and prose introductions of the Diadsenchas or legendary 

 account of the origin of the names of places in Ireland ; very many historic poems, 

 in which the legendary and traditional accounts of the early history of the country 

 are preserved ; Irish genealogies and hagiologies ; and a great number of interesting 

 stories, illustrative of the manners and customs, the modes of thought, and the 

 state of culture, &c., of the people of Ireland just about the period of the Anglo- 

 Xorman Invasion. 



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