SOURCE: "'Fury Destroys the World': Historical Strategy in Ireland's Ulster Epic," The Mankind Quarterly, Vol. XXIII, No. 1, Fall, 1982, pp. 41-60.
In this essay, Radner explores why the Táin was so popular during the eighth century, a time when Ireland's political situation differed so markedly from that of the Táin's audience. She concludes that the epic represents "a complex and strategic gesture of farewell to that [pagan era" that both glorifies the past and recognizes that its political environment was doomed to failure.]
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