The inhabitants of early medieval Britain and Ireland shared the
knowledge that the region held four peoples and the awareness that
they must have originally come from 'elsewhere'. The Origin Legends
of Early Medieval Britain and Ireland studies these peoples' origin
stories, an important genre that has shaped national identity and
collective history from the early medieval period to the present
day. These multilingual texts share many common features that repay
their study as a genre, but have previously been isolated as four
disparate traditions and used to argue for the long roots of
current nationalisms. Yet they were not written or read in
isolation during the medieval period. Individual narratives were in
constant development, written and rewritten to respond to other
texts. This book argues that insular origin legends developed
together to flesh out the history of the insular region as a whole.
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