Cuchulain of Muirthemne: The Story of the Men of the Red Branch of Ulster (Classic Reprint)

My Dear Friends, When I began to gather these stories together, it is of you I was thinking, that you would like to have them and to be reading them. For although you have not to go far to get stories of Finn and Go Uand Oisin from any old person in the place, there is very little of the history of Cuchulain and his friends left in the memory of the people, but only that they were brave men and good fighters, and that Deirdre was beautiful. When I went looking for the stories in the old writings, I found that the I rish in them is too hard for any person to read that has not made a long study of it. Some scholars have worked well at them. Irishmen and Germans and Frenchmen, but they have printed them in the old cramped I rish, with translations into German or French or English, and these are not easy for you to get, or to understand, and the stories themselves are confused, every one giving a different account from the others in some small thing, the way there is not much pleasure in reading them.
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