"Sumer is icumen in", read in Middle English with a modern English translation
Channel: Ancient Literature Dude
Date: 2021-03-08

A reading of "Sumer is icumen in" ("Summer has arrived"), the famed and beloved medieval round also known as the Cuckoo Song and the Summer Canon. The oldest known musical work featuring six-part polyphony, it is also the first recorded instance of the word "fart" in English.

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