RT Review
T1 Apocrypha Hiberniae, II: Apocalyptica, 1: In Tenga Bithnua—The Ever-new Tongue. Edited by John Carey
JF The journal of theological studies
VO 63
IS 2
SP 755
OP 758
A1 Stancliffe, Clare
LA English
PB Oxford University Press
YR 2012
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1783731346
AB The Ever-new Tongue is an intriguing text, largely in Old Irish of the ninth or tenth centuries, and remaining popular thereafter in Ireland, with a second recension dating from the later Middle Ages. In part, this may be due to its evocative way of putting things. For instance, the depths of hell are conveyed by telling ‘that even though the bird which is swiftest and strongest in flight should set out, it would scarcely reach its bottom at the end of a thousand years’.
K1 Rezension
DO 10.1093/jts/fls137