This book brings together the poetry of five languages - Latin, Welsh, Gaelic, Old English and Norse - in an accessible, scholarly anthology of translations, to form a spectacular window on Scotland's past. Ranging from war to religion, and nature to love, the quality and power of these poems display the riches of a vanished world. Many of these poems have never before appeared in translation - for the first time, the first 800 years of Scotland's literature are here brought together in one volume.