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Preiddeu Annwfn or Preiddeu Annwn (English: The Spoils of Annwfn) is a cryptic poem of sixty lines in Middle Welsh, found in the Book of Taliesin. The text recounts an expedition with King Arthur to Annwfn or Annwn, the Otherworld in Welsh. Preiddeu Annwfn is one of the best known medieval British poems.
"Widsith" (Old English: Wīdsīþ, "far-traveller", lit. "wide-journey"), also known as "The Traveller's Song", [1] is an Old English poem of 143 lines. It survives only in the Exeter Book ( pages 84v–87r ), a manuscript of Old English poetry compiled in the late-10th century, which contains approximately one-sixth of all surviving Old ...
The two areas which most nearly approach total untranslatability are poetry and puns; poetry is difficult to translate because of its reliance on the sounds (for example, rhymes) and rhythms of the source language; puns, and other similar semantic wordplay, because of how tightly they are tied to the original language.
William McGonagall's parents, Charles and Margaret, were Irish. His Irish surname is a variation on Mag Congail, a popular name in County Donegal. [3] [4] Throughout his adult life he claimed to have been born in Edinburgh, giving his year of birth variously as 1825 [1] or 1830, [5] but his entry in the 1841 Census gives his place of birth, like his parents', as "Ireland". [6]
Deor" (or "The Lament of Deor") is an Old English poem found on folio 100r–100v of the late-10th-century collection [1] the Exeter Book. The poem consists of a reflection on misfortune by a poet whom the poem is usually thought to name Deor. The poem has no title in the Exeter Book itself; the title has been bestowed by modern editors. In the ...
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Nine Tomorrows is a collection of nine short stories and two pieces of comic verse by American writer Isaac Asimov.The pieces were all originally published in magazines between 1956 and 1958, with the exception of the closing poem, "Rejection Slips", which was original to the collection.