Excerpt from The Voyage of Bran, Son of Febal, to the Land of the Living, Vol. 1: An Old Irish Saga; The Happy Otherworld The ms. Which comes next in importance I designate B. It is contained on pp. 57-61 of the vellum quarto classed Betham 145, belonging to the Royal Irish Academy. I am indebted to Mr. P. M. Macsweeney for a most accurate transcript of this ms. When I had an Opportunity of com paring his copy with the original, I found hardly any dis crepancies between the two. B was written in the fifteenth century, I ...
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Excerpt from The Voyage of Bran, Son of Febal, to the Land of the Living, Vol. 1: An Old Irish Saga; The Happy Otherworld The ms. Which comes next in importance I designate B. It is contained on pp. 57-61 of the vellum quarto classed Betham 145, belonging to the Royal Irish Academy. I am indebted to Mr. P. M. Macsweeney for a most accurate transcript of this ms. When I had an Opportunity of com paring his copy with the original, I found hardly any dis crepancies between the two. B was written in the fifteenth century, I think, by a scribe named Tornae, who, though he tells us in a marginal note1 that he had not for a long time had any practice in writing, did his task remarkably well. He modernises a good deal in spelling, but generally leaves the old-irish forms intact. Thus we owe to him the preservation of such original forms as the genitives fine (lat/w (8. Glam (3. Etc. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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