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This is a version, in verse, of the play originally written in prose and called The Golden Helmet. It is founded, Yeats tells us, ‘upon an old Irish story, The Feast of Bricriu, given in Lady Gregory’s Cuchulain of Muirthemne and is meant as an introduction to On Baile’s Strand’ (CW, IV). Saul (PYPl 50) points to an allied tale in the same volume, ‘The Championship of Ulster’, and also draws attention to the Middle English analogue, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, though there is no evidence to suggest that Yeats knew this poem.
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© 1975 A. Norman Jeffares and A. S. Knowland
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Jeffares, A.N., Knowland, A.S. (1975). The Green Helmet. In: A Commentary on the Collected Plays of W. B. Yeats. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-01076-9_9
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