The Old Hungarian 'Lamentations of Mary' (OHLM) (Hungarian: magyar Mria-siralom) is the oldest extant Hungarian poem, copied in about 1300 into a Latin codex, similarly to the first coherent written Hungarian text (Halotti beszd; Funeral Oration), which was written down between 1192 and 1195. Its text is a translation or adaptation of a version of the poem or rather sequence beginning Planctus ante nescia... that was quite widespread in medieval Europe.

The intresting thing is that Hungarian language changed very bit since the ancient times. So we can still read and understand the text that was written in the 12th century. At least for me this means that ancient Hungarian language was simply perfect.

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Find the text in Tek's reply. Thanks Tek!

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Edited by Villaman (03/30/08 01:09 AM)
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