Tain Bo Cuailnge is sometimes described as the national epic of antient Ireland. In fact it is a prose epic (with a very poor epic structure) from a country which had hardly begun to think of itself as one nation.
(c)
Alan Bruford
"Cu Chulainn - an ill-made hero?"
in
H.Tristram (ed)
Text und Zeittiefe
Tübingen 1994
p. 185
Вообще же мужик оттянулся:
"Like Supermann he (Cu Chulainn) has superhuman strenght and endurance, like Batman he also has spetial skills (...) In adition he is a beardless youth of seventeenth (...) , so he has an element of Peter Pan as well.
(c) там же, стр. 202