56/104 This little poem was scribbled by an Irish scribe in the margin of a copy of Priscian in the monastery of St Gall, in Switzerland, the same from which Charlemagne's highly imaginative biographer came. The original will be found in Stokes and Strachan, _Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus_ (1903) II, p.290.It has often been translated and I quote the translation by Kuno Meyer, _Ancient Irish Poetry_ (2nd ed., 1913), p.99.The quotation from the _Triads of Ireland_ at the head of this chapter is taken from Kuno Meyer also, ibid.pp. 102-3. _The Book of Ser Marco Polo the Venetian concerning the Kingdoms and Marvels of the East_, trans. |