SOURCE: "The Irish Epic," "The Epic Hero," and "Tragedy in the Epic" in The "Táin Bó Cuailnge" and the Epic Tradition, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Dallas, 1979, pp. 14-157.
In the following excerpt, Gray enumerates the different narrative and structural elements, as well as character types, present in the Táin and compares the poem with other epic poems, including the Iliad, the Odyssey, Beowulf, the Chanson de Roland, and the Mabinogion.
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