arthurian romances

  • 41Lyonesse — For other uses, see Lyonesse (disambiguation). Lyonesse Tristan and Iseult location Genre Arthurian legend Type Fictional country Notable characters Tristan …

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  • 42Pendragon (role-playing game) — Infobox RPG title= Pendragon subtitle=Chivalric Roleplaying in Arthur s Britain caption= Cover for Pendragon , 1st edition designer= Greg Stafford publisher= Chaosium, Green Knight Publishing, White Wolf, Inc. (since 2004) date= 1985 (1st… …

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  • 43Sir Launfal — is a 1045 line Middle English romance or Breton lay written by Thomas Chestre dating from the late 14th century. It is based primarily on the 538 line Middle English poem Sir Landevale , which in turn was based on Marie de France s lai Lanval ,… …

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  • 44Hartmann von Aue — (ca. 1160–ca. 1210)    The Southwest German (Allemanic) poet Hartmann von Aue introduced the genre of the Arthurian ROMANCE to German literature. He translated, or adapted, CHRÉTIEN DE Troyes’s Old French romance EREC (ca. 1160) into Middle High… …

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  • 45Tintagel Castle — (gbmapping|SX051889) is a castle currently in ruins found on Tintagel Head, located near the village of Tintagel in Cornwall, England, UK. The site was originally a Roman settlement, though the remains of the castle that stand today date from the …

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  • 46Perceforest — The prose romance of Perceforest with lyrical interludes of poetry, in six books, appears to have been composed in French in the Low Countries between 1330 and 1344. It forms a late addition to the cycle of narratives with loose connections both… …

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  • 47Turke and Sir Gawain, The — (ca. 1500)    The Turke and Gawain is a late 15th century ROMANCE in MIDDLE ENGLISH that is preserved in a 17th century manuscript called the Percy Folio, along with three other late romances focusing on Sir GAWAIN, always the favorite of King… …

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  • 48Glastonbury — infobox UK place country = England static static image caption=A view of Glastonbury from the Tor latitude= 51.1485 longitude= 2.7140 official name= Glastonbury population = 8,800cite web|url=http://www.somerset.gov.uk/media/030F1/mendip… …

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  • 49Daniel von Blumenthal — is an Arthurian romance composed around 1220 by the Middle High German poet Stricker, who claimed he had received the story from a French troubadour. It tells how Sir Daniel, heir to the kingdom of Blumenthal, becomes a Knight of the Round Table… …

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  • 50Geraint and Enid — (13th century)    Geraint and Enid is a Welsh prose ROMANCE included in some manuscripts of the MABINOGION. One of what are known as the “three romances” in Welsh (the others being OWAIN and PEREDUR),Geraint, like the other two texts, is… …

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