Adam Lay Ybounden

Michael R. Burch

May 13, 2025

This is my modern English translation of the early English rhyming poem "Adam Lay Ybounden" and its sister poems "I Have a Gentil Cok," "I Syng of a Mayden" and "I Have a Yong Suster."

2 Comments

I vote for lemman being reintroduced into our working vocabularies.

Michael R. Burch

I like the word myself, so I second your motion.

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