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Clancy, Thomas Owen (ed.), The triumph tree: Scotland's earliest poetry AD 550–1350, Canongate Classics, 86, Edinburgh: Canongate, 1999.
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The triumph tree: Scotland's earliest poetry AD 550–1350
Place
Edinburgh
Publisher
Canongate
Year
1999
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Translations, with notes. Latin texts translated by Gilbert Márkus, Welsh texts by Joseph P. Clancy, Gaelic and Old English texts by Thomas Owen Clancy, Norse texts by Paul Bibire and Judith Jesch.
Contents
Preface | 1 | |
List of contributions | 4 | |
Introduction | 5 | |
THE POEMS: | ||
attributed to St Mugint: | ||
Prayer for protection, Latin poem | 45 | |
'Aneirin' | The Gododdin | 46 |
Prologue(s) to The Gododdin | ||
Taliesin | The Battle of Given Ystrad | 79 |
In Praise of Urien | 80 | |
The Court of Urien | 82 | |
The War-Band's Return | 83 | |
The Battle of Argoed Lwyfain | 85 | |
In Praise of Rheged | 85 | |
The Spoils of Taliesin | 87 | |
Plea for Reconciliation | 88 | |
Elegy for Owain ab Urien | 89 | |
Poems attributed to Taliesin: | ||
In Praise of Gwallawg | 91 | |
Elegy for Gwallawg | 92 | |
Dinogad's Coat | 94 | |
Poems attributed to St Columba: | ||
The High Creator (Altus Prosator) | 95 | |
Helper of Workers (Adiutor Laborantium) | 100 | |
Prayer for Protection from Lightning (Noli Pater) | 101 | |
Dallán Forgaill: | ||
Elegy for Colum Cille | 102 | |
Beccán mac Luigdech of Rum: | ||
In Praise of Colum Cille | 108 | |
Last Verses in Praise of Colum Cille | 111 | |
Gaelic elegiac verses: | ||
On the drowning of Conaing son of Aedán | 113 | |
On the death of Mongán son of Fiachna | 113 | |
Verses on the Children of Beli son of Nwython: | ||
The Battle of Strathcarron | 114 | |
Riagail of Bangor, The Battle of Dunnichen | 115 | |
attributed to Adomnán of Iona: Elegy for Bruide son of Bile (Bridei Son of Beli) | 115 | |
Adomnán: | ||
Prayer to Colum Cille | 116 | |
Iona | 116 | |
Cú Chuimne of Iona: | ||
Anonymous, On Cú Chuimne | 117 | |
On Garbán Mide | 117 | |
Hymn for the Virgin Mary (Cantemus in Omne Die) | 118 | |
On Almsgiving | 120 | |
The Dream of the Rood: | ||
The Ruthwell Cross Crucifixion poem | 121 | |
The Dream of the Rood | 122 | |
The Miracles of St Nynia the Bishop | 126 | |
Hymn for St Nynia the Bishop | 140 | |
Gaelic verses on kings of the Picts: | ||
On Óengus, son of Fergus | 144 | |
On the death of Cinaed son of Ailpin | 145 | |
Gaelic satirical poems: | ||
On Gille-Phádraig | 145 | |
On Eithne, daughter of Domnall | 145 | |
Earl Turf-Einar of Orkney: | ||
Anonymous: Turf-Einar is praised for killing some pirates | 146 | |
Turf-Einar: Avenging his father | 146 | |
Orm Barreyjarskald, 'Poet of Barra' | ||
two fragments | 148 | |
Hafgerdingadrapa | 149 | |
The Death-song for Eirik Bloodaxe (Eiriksmal) | 150 | |
The Fall of Rheged | ||
Mugron, abbot of Iona: | ||
In Praise of Colum Cille | 158 | |
Christ's Cross | 159 | |
The Litany of the Trinity | 160 | |
Herfid's Song on the Battle of Clontarf | 164 | |
Darradarljod | 165 | |
Ottar the Black | ||
On Olaf Haraldsson, King of Norway | 168 |
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