Reynard and the Side of Bacon (Ysengrimus 1.269-288)

http://blogs.dickinson.edu/latin-poetry-podcast/files/2019/11/Ysengimus-1.269-288.mp3 Ysengrimus is a Latin mock epic, an anthropomorphic series of fables written in 1148 or 1149 in Latin elegiac couplets. Its chief character is Isengrin the Wolf; the plot describes how the trickster figure Reynard the Fox overcomes Isengrin’s various schemes. This week’s Latin Poetry Podcast is a excerpt in which Isengin and Reynard collaborate to bamboozle a peasant and steal his bacon. The translation is by Ashley Roman Francese, from the Latin text edited by Jill Mann: Ysengrimus. Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library. Harvard University Press, 2013. The trickster figure Reynard the Fox as depicted in an 1869 children’s book by Michel Rodange (Wikipedia)