{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/celt/btf/btf03.htm","path":"neu/celt/btf/btf03.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/btf/btf03.htm","text":"Dedication\nTo the memory of those truly cultured and unselfish men, the poet-scribes and hedge-schoolmasters of the last century and the beginning of this--men who may well be called the last of the Milesians--I dedicate this effort to preserve even a scrap of that native lore which in their day they loved so passionately, and for the preservation of which they worked so nobly, but in vain.","title":"Beside the Fire: Dedication","type":"page"}