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THE BOOK OF LEINSTER, sometime called The Book of " Glei^ 

 a collection of pieces in tlie Irish Language, compiled in part abo 

 die of the twelfth century. From the original MS. in Trinity College, D 

 introduction, analysis of contents, and index, by Robert AiEiiJfsON, M 

 Professor of Sanskrit and Comparative Grammar in the University of Du 

 tary of Council, Royal Irish Academy. 



This MS. forms the third in the series of the great Irish MSS. publi' 

 Royal Irish Academy. 



The Book of Leinster is one of the most important of the fragmei 

 literature that have come down to us. In addition to copies of the nativ 

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

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

 a great number of the poems and prose introductions of the Dindsenchas o 

 account of the origin of the names of places in Ireland ; very many hist 

 in which the legendary and traditional accounts of the early history of 1 

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

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

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

 Norman Invasion. 



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