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THE SIR JOHN RHYS LECTURE THE GAELIC STORY - TELLER . WITH SOME NOTES ON GAELIC FOLK - TALES By J. H. DELARGY Read 28 November 1945 HE prose literature of both the manuscript and the oral THE tradition of Ireland is anonymous ...
THE SIR JOHN RHYS LECTURE THE GAELIC STORY - TELLER . WITH SOME NOTES ON GAELIC FOLK - TALES By J. H. DELARGY Read 28 November 1945 HE prose literature of both the manuscript and the oral THE tradition of Ireland is anonymous ...
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The old tag , Graecum est , non legitur ! might well be applied to Gaelic folk - lore . Even a cursory examination of the canonical reference- books of the folk - tale investigator shows that the rich oral tradition of Ireland and ...
The old tag , Graecum est , non legitur ! might well be applied to Gaelic folk - lore . Even a cursory examination of the canonical reference- books of the folk - tale investigator shows that the rich oral tradition of Ireland and ...
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The question is an open one , and until the evidence , Gaelic , Icelandic , and Byzantinian , be examined , more than cautious speculation is inadmissible . The presence in Icelandic oral tradition of a number of motifs unquestionably ...
The question is an open one , and until the evidence , Gaelic , Icelandic , and Byzantinian , be examined , more than cautious speculation is inadmissible . The presence in Icelandic oral tradition of a number of motifs unquestionably ...
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CORRESPONDING FELLOWS 1945 | 4 |
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS By Sir John Clapham | 12 |
THE POETRY OF THOMAS GRAY Warton Lecture on English Poetry | 43 |
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