Romanz du reis Yder

The Romanz du reis Yder ('Romance of King Yder') is a medieval Anglo-Norman Arthurian romance, comprising 6,769 octosyllablic verse lines.[1] It survives in only one copy: a vellum manuscript of the second half of the thirteenth century, now Cambridge University Library Ee.4.26,[2] probably copied in England by a scribe of Continental origin during the reign of King John (1199-1216).[3]

The poem was thought by Alison Adams possibly to have been composed in western France at the end of the twelfth century or the beginning of the thirteenth.[4] The protagonist, Yder, appears in a number of Arthurian texts. In this story, 'a queen on her husband's instructions tests Yder's virtue by making outspoken advances to him in the hall where he has fallen asleep (ll. 185-510). He emphasizes his rejection of her by knocking her down with a kick in the stomach, to the amusement and satisfaction of the courtiers who are present'.[5]

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References

  1. ↑ M. Jacques Charles Lemaire, 'Originalités thématiques et textuelles du Romanz du reis Yder (circa 1210): Communication de M. Jacques Charles Lemaire à la séance mensuelle du 12 décembre 2009', Le Bulletin de l’Académie royale de langue et de littérature françaises de Belgique, 87 (2009), 195-211 (p. 195).
  2. ↑ Alison Adams (ed. and trans.), The Romance of Yder (Cambridge, 1983), p. 1.
  3. ↑ M. Jacques Charles Lemaire, 'Originalités thématiques et textuelles du Romanz du reis Yder (circa 1210): Communication de M. Jacques Charles Lemaire à la séance mensuelle du 12 décembre 2009', Le Bulletin de l’Académie royale de langue et de littérature françaises de Belgique, 87 (2009), 195-211 (p. 196).
  4. ↑ Alison Adams (ed. and trans.), The Romance of Yder (Cambridge, 1983), p. 5.
  5. ↑ Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, ed. by J. R. R. Tolkien and E. V. Gordon, 2nd edn rev. by Norman Davis (Oxford: Clarendon, 1967), p. xviii.


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