Besides the tales of Battles (Catha), there are the tales of Longasa, or Voyages; the tales of Toghla, or Destructions; of Slaughters, of Sieges, of Tragedies, of Voyages, and, not least memorable, of the Tana, or Cattle Spoils, and the Tochmarca, or Courtships.

It should be remembered that numbers of these tales are in existence, offering historical materials of the highest value.

The Books of Laws demand a special and more detailed notice, as well as the Historical Monuments.

With a brief mention of the Imaginative Tales and Poems, we must conclude this portion of our subject.
Ancient writings, even of pure fiction, must always form an important historical element to the nation by which they have been produced.
Unless they are founded on fact, so far as customs, localities, and mode of life are concerned, they would possess no interest; and their principal object is to interest.

Without some degree of poetic improbabilities as to events, they could scarcely amuse; and their object is also to amuse.