Irish influence on medieval Welsh literature
By: Patrick Sims-Williams
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 425
ISBN-13: 9780199588657
Subjects: History and criticism; Irish influences; Welsh literature
Description: Patrick Sims-Williams provides an approach to some of the issues surrounding Irish literary influence on Wales, situating them in the context of the rest of medieval literature and international folklore.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [340]-404) and index.
Table of contents: title: Irish vernacular influence on the earliest medieval Welsh literature; title: Kaer sidi and other Celtic otherworld terms; title: Narrative techniques in Irish and Welsh, I : the "Slavic antithesis"; title: Narrative techniques in Irish and Welsh, II : the riddling "watchman device"; title: The Irish elements in Culhwch and Olwen; title: The Irish geography of Branwen; title: The submission of Irish kings in fact and fiction; title: Llasar and the Lake of the Cauldron; title: The Iron House, the Men in Bags, and the Severed Head; title: Cú Chulainn in late medieval Wales; title: Fion, Deirdre, and Lebarcham in late medieval Wales; title: Irish influence on medieval Welsh literary criticism?.