{"id":5678,"date":"2009-04-05T17:37:51","date_gmt":"2009-04-05T15:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newth.net\/eirik\/?p=5678"},"modified":"2020-02-21T16:07:39","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T16:07:39","slug":"pangur-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newth.net\/eirik\/2009\/04\/05\/pangur-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Pangur B\u00e1n"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Nettopp hjemkommet fra Dublin, der vi selvsagt fikk tid til en svipptur innom museet i Trinity College som huser Book of Kells<\/a><\/em>, den enest\u00e5ende vakre illuminerte bibelteksten fra 800-tallet som p\u00e5 sett og vis er et nasjonalsymbol for Irland. I museet omtales ogs\u00e5 andre h\u00e5ndskrevne og rikt illustrerte skrifter fra samme periode, deriblant et lite dikt som tar opp en forbindelse jeg er opptatt av – nemlig den mellom katter og skribenter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Utsnitt av Book of Kells med opptil flere katter…<\/em> <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Diktet heter Pangur B\u00e1n<\/a>, og ble funnet i margen p\u00e5 et manuskript som sannsynligvis ble skrevet<\/a> en gang p\u00e5 700- eller 800-tallet av en irsk benediktinermunk i et kloster i K\u00e4rnten i dagens \u00d8sterrike. Pangur B\u00e1n betyr rett og slett “hvit katt” p\u00e5 gammelirsk, men det er ikke noe rett og slett ved forholdet mellom munken og hans katt:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I and Pangur B\u00e1n, my cat
‘Tis a like task we are at;
Hunting mice is his delight
Hunting words I sit all night.
Better far than praise of men
‘Tis to sit with book and pen;
Pangur bears me no ill will,
He too plies his simple skill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘Tis a merry thing to see
At our tasks how glad are we,
When at home we sit and find
Entertainment to our mind.
Oftentimes a mouse will stray
In the hero Pangur’s way:
Oftentimes my keen thought set
Takes a meaning in its net.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘Gainst the wall he sets his eye
Full and fierce and sharp and sly;
‘Gainst the wall of knowledge I
All my little wisdom try.
When a mouse darts from its den,
O how glad is Pangur then!
O what gladness do I prove
When I solve the doubts I love!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So in peace our tasks we ply,
Pangur B\u00e1n, my cat, and I;
In our arts we find our bliss,
I have mine and he has his.
Practice every day has made
Pangur perfect in his trade;
I get wisdom day and night
Turning darkness into light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oversatt fra gammelirsk av Robin Flower<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nettopp hjemkommet fra Dublin, der vi selvsagt fikk tid til en svipptur innom museet i Trinity College som huser Book of Kells, den enest\u00e5ende vakre illuminerte bibelteksten fra 800-tallet som p\u00e5 sett og vis er et nasjonalsymbol for Irland. I… Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-katt","category-kultur"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newth.net\/eirik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newth.net\/eirik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newth.net\/eirik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newth.net\/eirik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newth.net\/eirik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.newth.net\/eirik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13159,"href":"https:\/\/www.newth.net\/eirik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5678\/revisions\/13159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newth.net\/eirik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newth.net\/eirik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newth.net\/eirik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}