Lehmann (Edyta): The woman who wasn’t there: preliminary observations on the perplexing presence and absence of the character of Gráinne in the Tóruigheacht Dhiarmada agus Ghráinne.
Suggests that the story of Diarmaid’s death of by a boar is based ultimately on a version of the myth the death of Attis which was transmitted westwards by the Galatians of Asia Minor to the other Celtic terriories and is reflected in the later traditions of Britain and Ireland.