CELTIC MYTH AND SAGA.
REPORT UPON THE PROGRESS OF STUDY DURING THE PAST EIGHTEEN MONTHS.
G. Schirmer. Zur Brendanus Legende. Leipzig, 1888.
Anecdota Oxoniensia. Mediæval and Modern Series, part v. Lives of Saints from the Book of Lismore, edited by Whitley Stokes, D.C.L. Oxford, 1890.
Archdeacon T. O’Rorke. The History of Sligo, 2 vols. Dublin, 1889.
Sophie Bryant. Celtic Ireland. London, 1889.
Lady Ferguson. The Story of Ireland before the Conquest. 2nd ed. Dublin, 1890.
Histoire Littéraire de la France, tome xxx. Paris, 1888.
W. Golther. Die Frage nach der Entstehung der bretonischen und Arthur Epen. (Zeitschrift für Literaturgesel., vol. iii.)
K. Othmer. Das Verhältniss von Christian von Troyes’ “Erec et Enide” zu dein Mabinogion. Cologne, 1889.
Lady Wilde. Ancient Cures, Charms, and Usages of Ireland. London, 1889.
Folk and Hero Tales from Argyllshire, edited by the Rev. D. MacInnes, with notes by Alfred Nutt (quoted in this article as Tales).
J. Curtin. Myths and Folk-lore of Ireland. London, 1890.
D. MacRitchie. “The Finn-Men of Britain”, “British Dwarfs”, “Earth-houses and their Inhabitants” (Arch. Rev., vol. iv). London, 1889.IN an article which appeared in these pages (Arch. Review, Oct. 1888), and which this present one supplements and continues, I expressed the opinion that, “except the Hellenic, the Irish sagas are the only considerable mass of Aryan epic tradition almost entirely uninfluenced by Christianity. As evidence of the most
