Pentaur : an ancient Egyptian poet who wrote on the conquests of Rameses (q.v.).
... poetic qualities of the original. As for gaps in the culture—well, I don't know Russian or Finnish (missing the Kalevala ) and have not read the Nibelungenlied in the original, nor for that matter Pentaur's poem on the conquests of Rameses in ancient Egyptian or at least the fragment of it that survives. I don't know Arabic either but I don't mind that having read Burton's translation of the Arabian ...
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