Stair Ercuil ocus a bás The life and death of Hercules
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Stair Ercuil ocus a bás = The life and death of Hercules
(Irish Texts Society = Cumann na Scríbheann Gaedhilge, v. 38)
Pub. for the Irish Texts Society, by the Educational company of Ireland, 1939
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Irish and English on opposite pages
Preface and introduction in English
"The text ... exists ... in one manuscript only, that numbered H. 2.7 in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin ... The source ... is Raoul Lefevre's 'Recueil des histoires de Troyes,' finished ... in 1464 ... The exploits of Hercules occupy part of Book 1 and the whole of Book 2 of the 'Recueil'" -- Introd., p. [xiii]-xv
Spine & added title page: 1939 (1936)