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Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
12-May-06 - 08:19 PM
Thread Name: Origins: King Orfeo versions
Subject: RE: Origins: King Orfeo versions
You may be interested in "Sir Orfeo," 13th-14th century, from "The Middle English Breton Lays," edited Anne Laskaya and Eve Salisbury. The text is from the Auchinlech MS of the medieval romance, of which the ballad is a brief paraphrase.
The text includes translation of old words and phrases that are unfamiliar to modern readers.
http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/teams/orfeo.htm
Orfeo