Dinogad's Coat
Dinogad's Coat
Specked, specked, Dinogad's coat,
I fashioned it of pelts of stoat.
Twit, twit, a twittering,
I sang, and so eight slaves would sing.
When your daddy went off to hunt,
Spear on his shoulder,
club in his hand,
He'd call the hounds, so swift of foot:
"Giff, Gaff-seek 'im, seek 'im, fetch, fetch.
He'd strike fish from a coracle As a lion strikes a small animal.
When to the mountain your daddy would go,
He'd bring back a stag, a boar, a roe,
A speckled mountain grouse,
A fish from Derwennydd Falls,
Of those daddy reached with his lance,
Whether a boar or a fox or a lynx,
None could escape unless it had wings.
This Briton cradle song, composed around the year 650, may be the earliest recorded poem by a woman.
Here, set to music -
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