# The Táin

Author: Hutton, Mary A. (Mary Ann), 1862-1953 [Translator]; Campbell, John Patrick, 1883-1962 [Illustrator]

Genre: Mythology, Celtic -- Ireland

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77663

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+T%C3%A1in+Hutton&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Shen´-cawn, the agéd poet, asked the poets Of Erin (for Mar-vawn´, the Swineherd-Saint, Had laid that task on him) whether a poet Amidst them could relate the Táin Bo Cooley Unbroken from its opening; and no poet Amidst them could relate the Táin Bo Cooley Except in broken fragments. And the book, Wherein ’twas written, had been reft away And lost in Latin lands. And Shen´-cawn then (Because Mar-vawn´ had laid that task on him) Said to his band of three times fifty poets, Both to the Ollavs and the humblest learners, “We must go forth throughout the lands of Erin, And must not tarry two nights in one stead Till we get knowledge of the Táin.” Whereon The poets travelled through the lands o...

## Chapters

- [iii. 252, 379) says that the middle strings of the harp were called the](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-tain-77663/chapters/17/index.md)
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- [BOOK II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-tain-77663/chapters/3/index.md)
- [BOOK V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-tain-77663/chapters/6/index.md)
- [BOOK X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-tain-77663/chapters/11/index.md)
- [BOOK XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-tain-77663/chapters/13/index.md)
- [BOOK XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-tain-77663/chapters/12/index.md)
- [BOOK I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-tain-77663/chapters/2/index.md)
- [BOOK XIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-tain-77663/chapters/15/index.md)
- [BOOK VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-tain-77663/chapters/9/index.md)
- [BOOK XIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-tain-77663/chapters/14/index.md)
- [BOOK IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-tain-77663/chapters/5/index.md)
- [BOOK VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-tain-77663/chapters/8/index.md)
- [BOOK VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-tain-77663/chapters/7/index.md)
- [BOOK IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-tain-77663/chapters/10/index.md)
- [BOOK III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-tain-77663/chapters/4/index.md)
- [BOOK XV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-tain-77663/chapters/30/index.md)
- [Book XV 411](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-tain-77663/chapters/1/index.md)
- [BOOK II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-tain-77663/chapters/19/index.md)
- [BOOK I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-tain-77663/chapters/18/index.md)
- [BOOK III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-tain-77663/chapters/20/index.md)
- [BOOK XIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-tain-77663/chapters/28/index.md)
- [BOOK VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-tain-77663/chapters/23/index.md)
- [BOOK XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-tain-77663/chapters/26/index.md)
- [BOOK IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-tain-77663/chapters/21/index.md)
- [BOOK X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-tain-77663/chapters/25/index.md)
- [BOOK XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-tain-77663/chapters/27/index.md)
- [BOOK V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-tain-77663/chapters/22/index.md)
- [BOOK XIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-tain-77663/chapters/29/index.md)
- [BOOK IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-tain-77663/chapters/24/index.md)