[1.] Analogues of the banners in Germanic and other cultures; [2.] Banners in Irish tradition outside the fian; [3.] Banners associated with the fian; [4.] The banner quatrains in later tradition (incl. names of banners, e.g. Dealbh Ghréine, Fulang Doghra, Aoincheannach, Dún Naomhtha, Lámh Dhearg, Sguab Ghábhaidh, Lóch Luinneach); [5.] Form and composition of the BDL poem [see [6.]]; [6.] Edition (Poem beg. Naoinear a chuadhm[ar] fá choill, ed. from NLS MS Adv. 72.1.37 (Dean of Lismore’s Bk); with Engl transl. and notes). Figs.
Review article of: Sex aetates mundi: die Weltzeitalter bei den Angelsachsen und den Iren; Untersuchungen und Texte, ed. by H. L. C. Tristram (Heidelberg, 1985), and The Irish ‘Sex aetates mundi’, ed. by D. Ó Cróinín (Dublin, 1983).