Note 483 — Chapter I · (continued 2)

For an account of the Irish MSS. see Eugene O’Curry, Lectures on the MS. material of ancient Irish history (Dublin, 1861), lect. ix. p. 181; H. d’Arbois de Jubainville, Introduction a l’étude de la littérature Celtique, 2 vols. (Paris, 1883), i. chap. 8, p. 349, etc.; also Essai d’un catalogue de littérature épique d’Irlande, by the same author (Paris, 1883). For accounts of the voyages see O’Curry, p. 252, and especially p. 289, where a sketch of that of the sons of Ua Corra is given. A list of the voyages is given by D’Arbois de Jubainville in his Essai, under Longeas (involuntary voyages) and Immram (voluntary voyages), with details about MSS. and references to texts and translations (Mailduin, p. 151; Ua Corra, 152). See also Beauvois, Eden occidental, Rev. de l’Hist. des Relig., viii. 706, 717, for voyages of Mailduin and the sons of Ua Corra, and of other voyages. Also Joyce, Old Celtic romances (London, 1879). Is M. Beauvois in earnest when he suggests that the talking birds discovered by Mailduin (and also by St. Brandan) were probably parrots, and their island a part of South America?