Abstract:The
Song of Dermot and the Earl
is a Hiberno‐French
chanson de geste
which was composed in Ireland and survives only in a later thirteenth‐century medieval copy, London, Lambeth Palace Library, Carew MS 596. The
Song
is a key historical source for the history of Ireland in the twelfth century, and presents a heroic narrative recounting the story of the 1169 English invasion of Ireland at the behest of the Irish lord, Diarmait MacMurchada, … Show more
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