Excerpt from Liadain and Curithir, an Irish Love-Story of the Ninth Century
Many circumstances still retard the proper appreciation of the value and importance of early Irish literature. In its full extent and variety it is known to none as yet. It were rash to attempt to generalise on the merits and demerits of a literature upon which no one can speak with authority. It is indeed sometimes assumed that if not the whole, at least the greater and more important portion of Irish literature is before the public. That this is not so with regard to lyrical poetry, I have pointed out in the preface to King and Hermit. As to Irish romance, the facts are shortly these.
In his indispensable Essai d'un Catalogue de la Litterature Epique de l'Irlande, published in 1883, M. d'Arbois de Jubainville has enumerated the titles of about 550 separate tales and poems. Of these, about 400 have been preserved in MSS., while of the remaining 150 the titles only have come down to us, the tales themselves being lost. But M. d'Arbois' Catalogue is by no means exhaustive. With our increased knowledge it would now be easy to add at least another hundred tales) which we possess in MS.
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