French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 30, 2023

In Category - Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales, Romance

Authors: Marie de France In Year : 1911

Book Language: English

Audiobook: French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France

Introduction
Prologue by Way of Dedication
The Lay of Gugemar
The Lay of The Dolorous Knight
The Lay of Eliduc
The Lay of The Nightengale
The Lay of Sir Launfal
The Lay of The Two Lovers
The Lay of The Were-Wolf
The Lay of the Ash Tree
The Lay of The Honeysuckle
The Lay of Equitan
The Lay of Milon
The Lay of Yonec
The Lay of The Thorn
The Lay of Graelent
A Story of Beyond The Sea
The Chatelaine of Vergi

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 Poems which were included in her work but yesterday are withdrawn to-day, and new matter suggested by scholars to take the place of the old.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)