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...
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...
Hue de Rotelande, Ipomedon

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...