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rr^HF BOOK of'^-^-^-'--^®-'--^-^' sometime called The Book of " G-lendalough " : 

 L a eoUection of fj^^^^ i^ ^^^ Irish. Language, compiled in part about the mid- 

 dle of the t-n^elfth cei'^^^^T' ^^'o™- ^^^ original MS. in Trinity College, Dublin, with 

 introduction analysi^ ^^ contents, and index, by Robert Atkij^son, M. A., LL.D., 

 Professor of Sanskrit ^^^ Comparative Grammar in the University of Dublin, Secre- 



//iar/ of Council, Royfl Irish Academy. 



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 The Book of Leii'ister is one of the most important of the fragments of Irish 

 literature that have o'ome 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 Dindsenchas or legendary 

 account o£ -fne 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- 

 Norman Invasion. 



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