In taberna quando sumus everyone scolds, and thus we are destitute. May those who slander us be cursed and may their names not be written in the book of the righteous.</poem> In taberna quando sumus "In taberna quando sumus" (English: "When we are in the tavern") is a medieval Latin Goliardic poem written early in the 13th century, part of the collection known as the "Carmina Burana". It was set to music in 1935/36 by German composer Carl Orff as part of his "Carmina Burana" which premiered at Frankfurt Opera on 8 June 1937. Within Orff's "Carmina Burana", this drinking song is the 14th
Carmina Burana to Saint Catherine of Alexandria, who was venerated in Seckau, such as CB 12* and 19*–22*. In support of Kloster Neustift, the text's open-mindedness is characteristic of the reform-minded Augustine Canons Regular of the time, as is the spoken quality of the writing. Also, Brixen is mentioned in CB 95, and the beginning to a story appears in CB 203a which is unique to Tirol called the "Eckenlied" about the mythic hero Dietrich von Bern. It is less clear how the "Carmina Burana" traveled to Benediktbeuern. Fritz Peter Knapp suggested that the manuscript could have traveled in 1350 by way