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
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...
The Legend of Darkness
China 8th century CE The Legend of Darkness The Legend of Darkness is an amalgamated creation story passed down orally through untold generations among the Han people in China and likely first written down during the Tang Dynasty. Traditionally sung during funerary...
Hue de Rotelande, Ipomedon
England c. 1185 Hue de Rotelande, Ipomedon Ipomedon is an Anglo-Norman poem written sometime in the last decades of the 12th century (1185?), taking the title from the name of its protagonist hero. Ipomedon, as the name of a Medieval knight, sounds...Participants
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