Note 42 — Chapter V · THE CAROLINGIANS AND THE TENTH CENTURY
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The poetic of Irish epic during this period is more difficult to determine. From the existing forms, which are later, we may divine that its conceptions were at once mythical and romantic, and that its incidental verse—its main course was in prose—had already an elaborate technic.
The generally typical epic traits are suggestively presented by W. P. Ker, Epic and Romance, London, 1897; the specifically Anglo-Saxon ones, by R. W. Chambers, Beowulf, Cambridge, 1921. Both give extracts and references.