French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France - Free Audiobook
Author(s): Marie de France,
1 / 18Introduction
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Prologue by Way of Dedication
- 3. The Lay of Gugemar
- 4. The Lay of The Dolorous Knight
- 5. The Lay of Eliduc
- 6. The Lay of The Nightengale
- 7. The Lay of Sir Launfal
- 8. The Lay of The Two Lovers
- 9. The Lay of The Were-Wolf
- 10. The Lay of the Ash Tree
- 11. The Lay of The Honeysuckle
- 12. The Lay of Equitan
- 13. The Lay of Milon
- 14. The Lay of Yonec
- 15. The Lay of The Thorn
- 16. The Lay of Graelent
- 17. A Story of Beyond The Sea
- 18. The Chatelaine of Vergi
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The tales included in this little book of translations are derived mainly from the "Lays" of Marie de France. I do not profess them to be a complete collection of her stories in verse. The ascription varies. Poems which were included in her work but yesterday are withdrawn to-day, and new matter suggested by scholars to take the place of the old. I believe it to be, however, a far fuller version of Marie's "Lays" than has yet appeared, to my knowledge, in English. Marie's poems are concerned chiefly with love. To complete my book I have added two famous mediaeval stories on the same excellent theme. This, then, may be regarded as a volume of French romances, dealing, generally, with one aspect of mediaeval life. (Summary by Eugene Mason, from his preface to Lays of Marie de France)
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