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# XVIII. Legend of Knockmany.

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XVIII. Legend of Knockmany. of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 15 sentences and 193 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself.

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- [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/52/1/) — \_Source\_.--W. Carleton, \_Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry\_.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/52/2/) — \_Parallels\_.--Kennedy's "Fion MacCuil and the Scotch Giant," \_Legend.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/52/3/) — Fict.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/52/4/) — \_, 203-5.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/52/5/) — \_Remarks\_.--Though the venerable names of Finn and Cucullin (Cuchulain) are attached to the heroes of this story, this is probably only to give an extrinsic interest to it.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/52/6/) — The two heroes could not have come together in any early form of their sagas, since Cuchulain's reputed date is of the first, Finn's of the third century A.D.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/52/7/) — (\_cf.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/52/8/) — \_ however, MacDougall's \_Tales\_, notes, 272).
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/52/9/) — Besides, the grotesque form of the legend is enough to remove it from the region of the hero-tale.
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/52/10/) — On the other hand, there is a distinct reference to Finn's wisdom-tooth, which presaged the future to him (on this see \_Revue Celtique\_, v. 201, Joyce, \_Old Celt.
- [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/52/11/) — Rom.
- [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/52/12/) — \_, 434-5, and MacDougall, \_l.c.
- [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/52/13/) — \_ 274).
- [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/52/14/) — Cucullin's power-finger is another instance of the life-index or external soul, on which see remarks on Sea-Maiden.
- [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/52/15/) — Mr. Nutt informs me that parodies of the Irish sagas occur as early as the sixteenth century, and the present tale may be regarded as a specimen.

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