There is a perhaps rather pedestrian translation in Joseph
Connelly, Hymns of the Roman Liturgy Newman Press, 1957, pp
98-101.
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> I have been searching for some time for
a translation of Venantius
> Fortunatus's hymn, "Salve festa dies" but
with no success. A modern
> hymn, "Hail Thee Festal Day" or "Festal
Day" is widely known in
> Anglican and other circles, but it is so loosely
based on the Latin
> text as to be unusable for my
students.
>
> Our library is unable to obtain Stephen Augustus
Hurlbut, _Hortus
> Conclusus_ a ten-volume collection published in the
1930s, where it is
> probably found in vol. 3; and there is a
dissertation by Barbara Jack
> Rogers, "The Poems of Venantius Fortunatus:
A Translation and
> Commentary" (Rutgers, 1969), which may contain this
poem, but I don't
> have ready access to it. I will pursue these by
interlibrary loan,
> but if anyone just happens to have direct access to
an English
> translation, I'd appreciate help. Or I'll have to
translate it
> myself, I suppose, but making a good translation of poetry
does not
> happen overnight!
>
> Dennis Martin
>