The Triumph Tree: Scotland's Earliest Poetry (Canongate Classics)

By Thomas Owen Clancy

"The Triumph Tree" brings together for the first time the poetry of five languages Latin, Welsh, Gaelic, Anglo Saxon and Norse in an accessible, scholarly anthology of translations that form a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0862417872
• ISBN13: 9780862417871
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: Canongate Classics
• Length: 374 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 1.0" x 5.3"

Customer Reviews

A Northern Perspective

This is an excellent collection of early and medieval poetry from the north of Britain, competently translated into modern English from five languages (Latin, Welsh, Gaelic, Old English and Norse). As such it brings together from a Northern perspective a great variety of poems usually segregated into their own linguistic pigeonholes. Each selection has its own brief historical headnote. A useful collection for the student, and a rewarding box of surprises for the casual browser.