Fairy Tales & Folklore

Wanderings of Oisin

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  • 1889 first published
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William Butler Yeats's Wanderings of Oisin (1889) is a folklore and fairy tales novel.

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About Wanderings of Oisin

This narrative poem is composed in three parts, and consists of a dialogue between the aged Irish hero Oisín and St. Patrick. Oison relates his three-hundred year sojourn in the immortal isles of Faerie. In the isles, Oison married the beautiful Sidhe Niamh: together they traveled, feasted, and quested. At last Oison succumbs to the temptation to return and visit the lands of mortal men: inadvertently slipping from his faerie horse, his body touches the ground and instantly puts on the flesh of a decrepit old man. Oison describes various islands and what he did there: contrasting his noble deeds with the degenerate weakness of the present generation. (Summary by Godsend)
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Who wrote Wanderings of Oisin?

Wanderings of Oisin was written by William Butler Yeats and first published in 1889.

What genre is Wanderings of Oisin?

It is usually shelved as Fairy Tales & Folklore.

Is there a free audiobook of Wanderings of Oisin?

Yes — LibriVox volunteers recorded it; the recording runs 51 min.

What books are similar to Wanderings of Oisin?

Readers who like it often enjoy Dracula, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass.

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