Táin Bó Cúailnge

Táin Bó Cúailnge

Ireland 11th century (earliest extant version)   Anonymous, Táin Bó Cúailnge Táin Bó Cúailnge (‘The Cattle Raid of Cooley’) is a complicated work. While its plot is relatively simple, it is difficult to introduce, especially as an epic, because of its textual...
Attar, The Conference of the Birds

Attar, The Conference of the Birds

Iran 12th century CE Farid ud din Attar   Manṭiq Al-Ṭayr   (The Conference of the Birds)   This book is an ornament for the ages.It offers something for both the high and low.If you came sad and frozen to this book,its hidden fire will blaze and melt...
Fierabras

Fierabras

France c. 1170 Fierabras Introduction commissioned. ​ Contributor NameUniversity Affiliation Works Cited (if applicable) Works Cited   Resources BibliographyImagesWebsitesPerformances Editions: Fierabras, edited by Marc Le Person (Champion, 2003), who also...
La Chanson de Guillaume

La Chanson de Guillaume

France extant poem compiled in parts between c. 1130 and 1175/80 Anonymous La Chanson de Guillaume   Although known only through one complete manuscript and two fragments, all thirteenth-century Anglo-Norman, La Chanson de Guillaume originated in continental...
Cantar de Mio Cid

Cantar de Mio Cid

Spain Composed: ca. 1140-1207 CE Earliest extant manuscript: ca. 1300 CE Anonymous Cantar de mio Cid The oldest and most intact of the three Spanish epic poems to survive in writing, the Cantar de mio Cid—known also as the Poema de mio Cid—recounts the deeds of a...