human
The last and greatest of the ballad and tale collectors, says Mr. MacNeill,
gpt
We may quote further what the same writer says of the uncertain chronology of these ballads:--
human
They may have been composed centuries before they were committed to writing. We have fragments, such as the Glen-mason MS., written as early as the twelfth century, in the hand and language common to the learned in both Albin and Erin at the time. The 'Book of the Dean of Lismore,' however, is written phonetically to represent the spoken language of his day, and is mainly in the Perthshire dialect.