Sunday, February 15, 2004

Okay,

this is just wicked cool -

Virgil. : Imtheachta Aeniasa = The Irish Aeneid : being a translation made before A.D. 1400, of the XII books of Vergil's Aeneid into Gaelic / the Irish text, with translation into English, introduction, vocabulary, and notes by George Calder.

I had no idea that the Aeneid had been translated into Gaelic; nor had the person who was checking out the book until she'd stumbled upon it in the stacks. How cool is that? The patron also mentioned that there's a Gaelic retelling of the Garden of Eden story from about the same time in which Eve is portrayed much more sympathetically than in the standard versions of the tale, heroically even. Gotta love those Celts!

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