On the prose portion of that Fenian literature perhaps only Acallam na Senorach may be praised unconditionally as bound to delight all men capable of appreciating good literature. The rest of the mainly prose tales may be praised in certain respects only, for their suitability for the inperfectly developed society for which they were composed, for the real , if wrongly directed, artistic skill of their inventors, for the beauty of some of their poetic passages, or for the heroic traditionwhich has here and there been incorporated into them and which gives nobility to single episodes.
(c)
Gerard Murphy
Duanaire Finn. Vol. 3 , p. lxxxviii
Dublin 1953