The Triumph Tree: Scotland's Earliest Poetry AD 550-1350 (Canongate Scottish Classics)

The Triumph Tree brings together for the first time the poetry of five languagesLatin, Welsh, Gaelic, Anglo Saxon and Norsein an accessible, scholarly anthology of translations that form a spectacular window on Scotland's past. Ranging from war to religion, nature to love, the quality and power of these poems display the riches of a vanished world. Alongside famous works such as The Gododdin (here in its most faithful translation yet) and The Dream of the Road , are poems by and for St Columbia, the homesick verse of Gaelic poets on crusade, the court skalds of the Orkney earls, poems in praise of strong drinkers, harps, books and islands, and much else besidesmany of which have never before appeared in translation.