Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Song of Dermot and the Earl: An Old French Poem From the Carew Manuscript No. 596 in the Archiepiscopal Library at Lambeth Palace; Edited With Literal Translation and Notes, a Facsimile and a Map
Apart from its value as a material of history, an Anglo Norman text written in Ireland, as there is every reason to suppose this was, is sufficiently rare to justify its study from the point of view of language alone. In England at one time it seemed as if the French language was about to gain the upper hand, at any rate as the language of literature and of the educated classes, but this can never have been the case in Ireland, where French was Spoken only by some of the leaders and early settlers in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries and by a few friars and monks educated in France. All the more precious then is one of the very few Irish examples of anglo-norman rhymes saved from the wreck of the past.
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