Pokorny Julius. A Concise Old Irish Grammar and Reader. Part 2: Reader

Reprint (2nd work). — Halle (Saale): M. Niemeyer, 1923. — 103 p.The scope of this little book is to provide students of Old Irish with more interesting texts than were hitherto at their disposal.
Except the Glosses and the Cambray Homily none of the texts given below have been preserved in Old Irish manuscripts. It is well known that many fine tales and poems composed during the Old Irish period have come down in later Middle Irish MSS., often only very slightly corrupted and modernised by the transcribers, so that it seemed worth while to make an attempt at restoring their original form. It is quite evident that owing to the fluctuating character of Irish orthography it is quite impossible to restore a text with certainty as it stood in the original MS., but it is quite possible to restore a text as it might have stood in the original, which for our purpose is the same thing, since the differences which might arise in this case are mostly insignificant.