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Often appears with: translation methodology · translation and the transmission of texts · language, naming, and meaning · geography and the description of places · geographical-name elements · ath ford and sid fairy mound
Usually: commentary or gloss (1) · detachment (1)
The translation methodology is stated: keep close to the original, limit notes, explain omitted rhetorics, and translate certain linguistic features; it also gives a guide to Irish geographical-name elements used throughout the Tain.
lamentation. The older version of the *Tain* is throughout singularly free from pathos of the feebler sort; the humorous side is always uppermost, and the tragic suggestions interwoven with it. But it is still a matter of question whether the whole Fer Diad episode may not be late. Professor Zimmer thinks it is; but even the greatest scholar, with a theory to prove, is not quite free. It will of course be noticed, o…