In the legends and allegories and satires represented in these pages the reader will find strange and fervent faiths as well as homely pictures of the world as it is. A vigorous use of the concrete is everywhere evident; abstractions seem not to exist without some physical traits to make them real to the ordinary man. Intensely picturesque and objective are the descriptions of hell and of heaven, of the lands visited by Brandon, of Saint Paul’s otter, of the miracles of Saint Thomas, of the virtues of the coral, and of the traits of Rose and of Violet. To any readers there is unending charm in the natural, simple style of setting forth these details which force vivid conceptions upon the imagination.

Kitapta OK edatının tarihî lehçelerdeki kullanımı ele alınmıştır. Türkçedeki en eski pekiştirme edatlarından biri olan OK edatı, aynı zamanda bir enklitik edatı olarak da Türkçeye pek çok ek ve sözcük oluşumunda katkı sağlamıştır. Kitap bir Giriş ve üç ana bölüm üzerinden tasarlanmıştır. Giriş’te edat, pekiştirme edatı ve enklitiklik hakkında bilgilendirme yapılmıştır. Birinci bölümde Tarihî metinlerde OK edatının kullanımı ele alındı. İkinci Bölümde OK edatının anlam ve gramatikal kullanımı üzerinde duruldu. Üçüncü Bölümde OK edatının ek ve sözlerde kalıplaşması tespit edilmeye çalışıldı. Böylece OK edatının tarihî lehçelerdeki kullanımı bir bütün olarak verilmek suretiyle gramer çalışmalarına ilgi duyanların dikkatine sunulmuştur

In the perusal of the Irish literature, we see that the strength of this conservative instinct has been of the greatest service in the preservation of the early monuments in their purity. So much is this the case, that in many tales the most flagrant contradictions appear, the author or scribe being unwilling to depart at all from that which he found handed down. For instance, in the “Great Breach of Murthemney,” we find Laeg at one moment killed, and in the next riding black Shanglan off the field. From this conservatism and careful following of authority, and the littera scripta, or word once spoken, I conclude that the distance in time between the prose tale and the metrical originals was very great, and, unless under such exceptional circumstances as the revolution caused by the introduction of Christianity, could not have been brought about within hundreds of years. Moreover, this same conservatism would have caused the tales concerning heroes to grow very slowly once they were actually formed. All the noteworthy events of the hero’s life and his characteristics must have formed the original of the tales concerning him, which would have been composed during his life, or not long after his death.