The Alan Sondheim Mail Archive

October 25, 2008


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From: Dennis King <donncha1@comcast.net>
Date: Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 11:37 AM
Subject: [ANSAX-L] Medieval Irish Joke
To: ANSAX-L@listserv.wvu.edu


I have recently put up a website with a translation and discussion of a
little story in Old Irish which is arguably the earliest surviving joke in
that literature:

http://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/sengoidelc/donncha/triar_manach/

I hope you enjoy it!

The entire site is available, as you will see, in a number of languages.  In
addition to that, I intend to put up a subsidiary site -- mostly just for
the fun of it -- with translations of the eight-line tale itself into
various other languages, living and dead.  Among the latter, I so far have
translations into Latin and Sanskrit in hand.  I would dearly love to see
the joke in Old English as well.  If anyone out there is up for that, please
let me know, on list or off.

Dennis King
Old-Irish-L

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