Four Arthurian Romances
Chrétien
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Chrétien · 15 chapters
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Chrétien De Troyes has had the peculiar fortune of becoming the best known of the old French poets to students of mediaeval literature, and of remaining practically unknown to any one else.
The man who, so far as we know, first recounted the romantic adventures of Arthur's knights, Gawain, Yvain, Erec, Lancelot, and Perceval, has been forgotten.
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- PrefaceSample
- 18 The complexion of her forehead
- 19 And yet she would be well enough
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- 28 But just
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- 32 But let us leave those who are
- 34 Out from the forest I passed
- 37 The tree
- 38 They say
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- 42 After the feast the King did not
- 45 They all inquire: "To what
- 46 To the lance there was attached
- 49 And his horse bears him along