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Go To The Alliterative Morte Arthure, Part IV. Footnotes. ALLITERATIVE MORTE ARTHURE: FOOTNOTES. 1 Harmful Scotland with skill he rules as it pleases him. 2 From Swynn (an arm of the North Sea near Zeeland) to Sweden, with his sharp sword. 3 Created and gave out dukedoms in diverse realms. 4 Caerleon; skillfully made. The Alliterative Morte Arthure is a line Middle English alliterative poem, retelling the latter part of the legend of King Arthur. Dating from about , it is preserved in a single copy in the early 15th-century Lincoln Thornton Manuscript, now in Lincoln Cathedral Library. Although the unknown poet knew the In broad terms, scholarship of the allitera- French tradition of Arthurian romance and tive Morte consistently focuses on four issues: the French valorization of Lancelot, his pri- the manuscript context; the poem’s relation mary sources reflect a careful selection from to the chronicle tradition; the poem’s relation the chronicle tradition of Geoffrey, Wace, to Estimated Reading Time: 7 mins.

The Stanzaic Morte Arthur is an anonymous 14th-century Middle English poem in 3, lines, about the adulterous affair between Lancelot and Guinevere, and Lancelot's tragic dissension with King www.doorway.ru poem is usually called the Stanzaic Morte Arthur or Stanzaic Morte (formerly also the Harleian Morte Arthur) to distinguish it from another Middle English poem, the Alliterative Morte Arthure. This edition by Valerie Krishna is by far the best version of the Alliterative Morte Arthure on the market and the first scholarly edition to be published in English in over a hundred years. Krishna provides an excellent introduction to the text that explores questions on the date and place of composition, authorship, language, style and structure. Penguin Classics.(Two Middle English romances on the death of Arthur (with two unknown authors) can be found in this www.doorway.ru alliterative Morte Arthure was written about , and it followed along the same plot as that of Geoffrey of Monmouth's work, because there was no Lancelot's role is small and emphasising the betrayal of Mordred to.

ALLITERATIVE MORTE ARTHURE: FOOTNOTES. 1 Harmful Scotland with skill he rules as it pleases him. 2 From Swynn (an arm of the North Sea near Zeeland) to Sweden, with his sharp sword. 3 Created and gave out dukedoms in diverse realms. 4 Caerleon; skillfully made. “Morte Arthure”: A Critical rious but self-destructive. By such accounts Edition. New York and London: Garland. as these, Arthur’s death is deserved punish- Matthews, William. The Tragedy of Arthur: A ment for his own “cirquytrie” (l. ) or Study of the Alliterative “Morte Arthure.”. Mary Hamel, ed., Morte Arthure: A Critical Edition, Garland Medieval Texts, 9 (New York and London: Garland, ) Edited from Thornton Manuscript. Mary Macleod Banks, ed., Morte Arthure: An Alliterative Poem of the 14th Century, from the Lincoln MS (London: Longmans, ; Reprinted New York: AMS Press, ).