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(2) The Fair Woman’s Hill.—The Death of Conlaoch.—The Lay of the Heads.—Deirdre.—Fraoch.—Cormac’s Birth.—The Battle of Gabhra.—The Lay of the Great Fool.[1]—Heroic Gaelic Literature.—Conclusion.

Sect. VII. Irish MSS., Brit. Museum.

Sect. VIII. Growth of Folk-lore: Trash Bags; Sorted Rubbish.—The Festivities at the House of Conan of Cearn Sleibhe, 1780.—A Geological Illustration.—A Breton Structure.—A Scotch Structure.—A Miniature Structure upon a large old Plan.—Irish Structure: The Dinn Seanchas.—Minglay Manners.—A Norse Structure: The Edda.—An Eastern Structure: The Arabian Nights.—A Sanscrit Structure: The Beast Epic.—Plan of Structures in the East and West.—An Irish Structure: The Book of Lismore, 1512-26.—A Medical (sic; rete mediæval?) Structure: O’Cein’s Leg.—A Fossil in a Structure: Conall Gulban, A.D.—The Materials of the Broken Structure of O’Cein’s Leg.—A Scotch Structure: Ossian.—Conclusion.

Sect. IX. The Growth of Folk-lore: The Drama.

Sect. X. Folk-lore and National Epics.—Homer.—National Poems and Folk-lore.

Sect. XI. Fact and Fiction.—The Aryan Theory.—Romans, Saxons, Danes, Norsemen.—Native Literature.—Kurroglou: Gaelic and Perso-Turkish Tales.—Master-thief: The Siege and Love Story.

Sect. XII. Early Scoto-Irish-Scandinavian Romantic History.—Keating, etc., 1629.—Cuchullain.—Children of Usnoth, Cumhall, Fionn, Caoilte, etc.—Oisein. O’Mahony’s Keating.—Fionn and the Feinne.—Ancient Fenian Warrior Bards. Fionn’s Pedigree.—Oral Fenian Pedigree.

Sect. XIII.[2] Scoto-Irish Heroes and their Religion, A.D. 284-591 (pp. 178-189).

Sect. XIV. Scoto-Irish Heroes in Tradition in the first-third centuries (pp. 190-201).

Sect. XV. Ethnological and Social (pp. 202-220).


  1. What the author says respecting this lay adds nothing to the information given, L. n. F., p. 203.
  2. I add the pagination from Sect. XIII on. The List of Contents of the first twelve sections at beginning of volume indicates the paging.