Note 111 — PART II (continued 2)

Transcribed into the L.U. before 1103 A.D. from the earlier Book of Slane, now lost: edited (without a translation) by Professor Windisch in Irische Texte, vol. i. pp. 197 sqq. Professor Windisch, who states that the tale is composed of materials from several distinct sources (op. cit., pp. 202-3), calls attention to the thoroughly pagan character of it, despite the introduction of a passing allusion to Adam on p. 219. Portions of the descriptions of the Tír Tairngire contained in this tale and in the story of Mider have been rendered in metre by Dr. Douglas Hyde, Literary History of Ireland, pp. 202-3.