" .. This quantitative investigation is, of course, very different from traditional approaches to comparative mythology---it tells us nothing about qualitative aspects, only about how realistic, or otherwise, the societies appear when viewed as interconnected networks. However, the application of mathematics delivers new perspectives. In particular, it allows us to speculate that, if the Táin contains echoes of a bygone age, the six anomalous characters may be based on amalgams of a number of entities and proxies that became fused as the narrative was passed orally through the generations."
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