Note 240 — Chapter VIII · LITERARY INFLUENCE: THE SAGAS OF ICELAND AND IRELAND.

Printed in Silva Gadelica (ed. Standish O’Grady), Vol. I., pp. 296-305.

Stories of Brian and his sons are still current in the Gaelic-speaking districts of Ireland. (See Zeitschrift für Celtische Philologie, Band I., pp. 477-492.) They are, however, more likely to be folk tales, in which the deeds of mythical heroes have been transferred to historical people, than sagas transmitted by oral tradition from generation to generation.