Investigates the textual history of Dúil Dromma Cetta and examines the relationship of this text to Sanas Cormaic.
Appendix 1 contains (a) a transcription of the legible parts of Egerton 1782 fol. 15 and (b) a transcription of TCD H 1. 13 pp. 361-362;
Appendix 2 contains a sample concordance to Dúil Dromma Cetta.
Aims at reconstructing the lost legendary frame that accompanied this narrative, arguing in favour of a common insular Celtic prototype of tale concerning a king’s visit to the Otherworld.
Studies the 21 extant poems composed for Philip O’Reilly (d. 1596) of east Breifne, arguing for the existence of two strands of bardic thought in his duanaire, one traditional and localist, and another one innovative and concerned with the political problems of all Ireland.
Karl Horst Schmidt, in ZCP 51 (1999), pp. 357-360.