Versions of both of them are found in the great MS.

collection known as the BOOK OF LEINSTER (twelfth century).
_King Iubdan and King Fergus_ is a brilliant piece of fairy literature.

The imaginative grace, the humour, and, at the close, the tragic dignity of this tale make it worthy of being much more widely known than it has yet become.

The original, taken from one of the Egerton MSS.

in the British Museum, will be found with a translation in O'Grady's SILVA GADELICA.