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The library of Melk Abbey, where the fragment was discovered in 2019. Poems such as Der Rosendorn were uncommon but not unknown in the Middle Ages, particularly in German literature, and often-satirical writers were not afraid to use the foulest of language—mentula (cock), [6] cunnus (cunt) [5] and futuo (to fuck), [7] for example—to emphasise their points.
(Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses has an introductory poem ("To T.A.") in Kipling's own voice, which is strictly not part of the set but is often collected with them.) A third group of poems, published in 1903 in The Five Nations , continued the theme of military vernacular ballads; while they were titled "Service Songs", they fit well ...
Later, the parma was replaced by the body-length scutum as velites were phased out with the so-called "Marian reforms". Reconstruction of a Roman cavalry man with a parma War use
Byles, Joan Montgomery. "Women's Experience of World War One: Suffragists, Pacifists and Poets." Women's Studies International Forum 8, no. 5 (1985): 473-487. Buck, Claire. 'British Women's Writing of the Great War'. In The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the First World War, edited by Vincent Sherry, 85-112. Cambridge: Cambridge ...
In Latin, the shield was called a scutum—where the name scutarius comes from. Due to having a large shield, scutarii would wear shin armour ( ocrea ) on their shield leg. This piece of armour would be smaller than the two ocreae worn by parmularii , who carried a smaller, though still somewhat large, shield.
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Iain Lom, a Tacksman from Clan MacDonald of Keppoch, composed a long eyewitness account of the 1645 Battle of Inverlochy in the war poem Là Inbhir Lochaidh ("The Day of Inverlochy"). The resulting poem is still regarded as one of the great treasures of Scottish Gaelic literature and is an important primary source for historians regarding the ...
Even closer to the Jonsonian model is a poem by the oldest of the so-called "Sons of Ben", Robert Herrick, A Panegyric to Sir Lewis Pemberton. Examples later than the 17th century are rare, but prominent among them might be W. B. Yeats ' "In Seven Woods" (1904), " The Wild Swans at Coole " (1919) and more importantly "Coole Park and Ballylee ...