Pangur Ban - The White Cat

by VIVA Anderson

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Pangur Ban - The White Cat

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VIVA Anderson

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Pangur Ban - The White Cat, photo by VIVA Anderson. To celebrate an old Irish poem, divine white cats; history of cats; cat poetry here quoted. Enjoy. This is a modern decorative ornament, given to me by son Fred, years ago. Time to celebrate! Even if I have 9 lives!! !:))VIVA

Though my antecedents are Ukrainian, somehow in my ‘mix’ might be Irish, too?


PANGUR BAN-WHITE CAT

"Pangur Bán" is an Old Irish poem
The poem is found in only one manuscript, the Reichenauer Schulheft or Reichenau Primer. The primer appears to be the notebook of an Irish monk based in Reichenau Abbey.
Irish-language singer Pádraigín Ní Uallacháin recorded the poem in her 2011 studio album Songs of the Scribe, featuring both the original text and a translation by Nobel laureate Séamus Heaney.
English translation by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan (1903):

“I and Pangur Bán, each of us two at his special art:
his mind at hunting (mice), my own mind is in my special craft.
I love to rest—better than any fame—at my booklet with diligent science:
not envious of me is Pangur Bán: he himself loves his childish art.
When we are—tale without tedium—in our house, we two alone,
we have—unlimited (is) feat-sport—something to which to apply our acuteness.
It is customary at times by feat of valour, that a mouse sticks in his net,
and for me there falls into my net a difficult dictum with hard meaning.
His eye, this glancing full one, he points against the wall-fence:
I myself against the keenness of science point my clear eye, though it is very feeble.
He is joyous with speedy going where a mouse sticks in his sharp-claw:
I too am joyous, where I understand a difficult dear question.
Though we are thus always, neither hinders the other:
each of us two likes his art, amuses himself alone.
He himself is the master of the work which he does every day:
while I am at my own work, (which is) to bring difficulty to clearness.”

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