Essay on heroes, masculinity, and the body in the early Irish saga The Story of Mac Dathó’s Pig, published in the scholarly collection The Ends of the Body: Identity and Community in Medieval Culture. First presented at Victoria College, University of Toronto in March 2006. A revised version appears in my thesis.
Full bibliographical reference:
Sarah Sheehan, “Losing Face: Heroic Discourse and Inscription in Flesh in Scéla Mucce Meic Dathó,” in The Ends of the Body: Identity and Community in Medieval Culture, ed. Suzanne Conklin Akbari and Jill Ross (University of Toronto Press, 2013), 132–52.
Image: tapestry by Louis le Brocquy
Sarah Sheehan 