”Pangur Ban”

Today’s poem, translated by Robin Flowers, was originally written in Old Irish inside an 8th-century scribe’s copy of St. Paul’s epistles. However, it reveals its anonymous author to be anything but a bored and disinterested grunt. Happy reading.

N.B. Here is a wonderful reading of the poem in Old Irish.

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