Note 139 — PART II (continued 2)

Iomram Churraig h-Ua g-Corra, ed. and trans, by Mr. W. Stokes, in Rev. Celt., xiv. 22 sqq., from the Book of Fermoy, a MS. of the fourteenth century. The tale, in its present form, is later than that of Maelduin, though Professor Zimmer considers that the original was written early in the eighth century, the present being probably ‘a thirteenth-century rifacimento, save the opening portion, which he (Zimmer) thus looks upon as being the earliest fragment of this genre of story-telling.’—Nutt, Voyage of Bran, i. 162. Mr. Stokes, however, regards the extant version as a work of the eleventh century, loc. cit.