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Yes, which imho makes it more remarkable. I do not doubt an English translation is coming once they can convert it into modern Irish.

• jonas21 8mo ago
  Here's Claude's translation of the PDF in the repo: https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/0c40c3f8-16de-4947-93c1-343f7032d92b https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/0c40c3f8-16de-4947-93c1-3... I couldn't verify it, and a human translation would be preferable -- but it's probably good enough to get an idea of the story if you want to read some right now.
  • dmurray 8mo ago
    I can verify it looks fine. Not absolutely rigorous, e.g. > "You have far more knowledge of the stars and the planets than any other living man" Why "far more knowledge"? I don't see any emphasis like that in the original. I'd have a few nits but they're of similarly small magnitude.
  • antonvs 8mo ago
    > “I became certain the planet was in the sky, in the very place where the ancient Egyptian scientist had marked it” Ah yes, planets famously remain static in the sky…
• dmurray 8mo ago
  It looks extremely accessible. I can puzzle through the pages I looked at with school-level Irish. The script can be mechanically translated to the modern characters, no ambiguity there. The spelling and grammar isn't the perfectly standardized Irish introduced in the 1940s and 50s - which isn't representative of how anyone ever spoke the language - but its differences are those a good to mediocre student might make anyway while trying to write the official standard. It helps that this is clearly written for a YA audience. Literary Irish has lots of complicated constructions and idioms which are difficult to translate, but this does not.
• talideon 8mo ago
  I mean, it _is_ in modern Irish! It just needs to be transcribed.