Investigates the source of the motif of colour-changing trees in the Irish and French medieval literary traditions (with particular reference to In tenga bithnua).
Critical edition of a section of the third recension of In tenga bithnua describing the journey of the soul through the seven heavens. Provides the text of three versions (based on eighteenth-century MSS), with critical apparatus: 1. NLS Advocates’ Library 72.2.5 (Gaelic LV) with variants from Egerton 174; 2. Text from RIA 23 D 8 with variants from 15 other MSS; 3. Text from RIA 3 C 15. With English translation and notes.
[I.] Introduction; [II.] In tenga bithnua = The ever-new tongue: edition and translation of the Lismore text and of the second recension [prints the Lismore text and the text of the second recension (based on Paris, with variants) on parallel pages, presenting the edited text, critical apparatus and English translation on a split-page]; [III.] Commentary and textual notes; [IV.] Indices.
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