Hartmann (Hans): Was ist ‘Wahrheit’ (2)?: ein Vergleich französischer, keltischer, indischer, iranischer und griechischer Vorstellungen von der Verwirklichung der Wahrheit; eine kulturgeschichtliche Analyse. Teil I.
Expands a previous article in ZCP 49-50 (1997), pp. 287-310. Studies in particular the representation of the prince in Irish wisdom literature and the concept of fír flathemon. Continued in ZCP 53 (2003), pp. 1-101.
Argues in favour of a direct connection between early European iconography and mythic episodes and characters from early Irish literature, focusing on the Irish goddess of sovereignty.
Describes and analyses the linguistic material used by R. Thurneysen as source for Handbuch des Altirischen (1909) and the revised Grammar of Old Irish (1946).