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Pangur Bán
From an article posted to MEDTEXTL, by James Marchand.
This being St. Paddy's day, I thought I would regale you with one of the finest poems ever written, Pangur ban. When Kate Campbell wrote her dissertation on "The Lyric Moment in Medieval Literature," we both decided that it had to begin with this poem. Like so much of Old Irish, it is found in German-speaking territory, in the Monastery of St. Paul up in Carinthia (no. sec. xxv. d. 86). The manuscript has four leaves, and this ...
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