Are there real, ancient Irish legends about the ancient Jews and or Greeks settling in Ireland?
I. I don’t have access to my journal databases right now, so I can’t really bring up much of the secondary scholarship on the topic (Why? It’s complicated and involves an idiotic crew of workers who didn’t understand the relationship between electricity and water) What I do have with me, however, is the Oxford Classical Dictionary (3rd edition revised) which is generally considered authoritative if not completely comprehensive on the matter. (Read: it may not cover everything on the subject, but what it does cover is considered utterly correct … more so than anything you’ll find on the internet) And I read: II. Hibernia: Ireland, first known to the Greeks through Massiliote mariners (c. 525BC) as being ‘five days sail from Brittany, near the Albiones’ island’. Eratosthenes (c. 235BC) probably through Pytheas’ circumnavigation of Britain (c. 310-306BC), placed Ireland correctly on his map. Strabo (4. 201) says that, oblong in shape, it lay near and north of Britain and contained greed
