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Dutch Romances II - Ferguut (Hardcover)
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Dutch Romances II - Ferguut (Hardcover)
Series: Arthurian Archives
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First English translation of the Dutch version of the Old French
Fergus, with accompanying text. Some time in the first quarter of
the thirteenth century, Guillaume le clerc composed the story of
Fergus, the homo silvaticus who develops into a formidable knight;
he was playing a literary game with Chrétien de Troyes, especially
with his Conte du Graal, and he created a romance in which the main
character features as a "new" Perceval in a realistically depicted
Scottish landscape. Shortly thereafter, perhaps as early as 1250,
the story was translated into Middle Dutch. The Ferguut, however,
is an adaptation of the Old French Fergus, rather than a slavish
translation: although the translator followed his Old French
original fairly faithfully for the first part, thereafter the poet
- and most likely a second author - continued his work from memory,
and clearly without the Old French version to hand. The result is a
romance which possesses all the appeal of the Old French Fergus,
but at the same time reveals something of the Middle Dutch
romancer's tastes and techniques. This volume offers the first ever
English translation, facing a new edition of the text, and will
thus bring this important work to a wider audience; it is
accompanied by an introduction, variants and rejected readings, and
critical notes. David F. Johnson is Professor of English, Florida
State University; Geert H.M. Claassens is Professor of Middle Dutch
Literature at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.
General
Imprint: |
D.S. Brewer
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
Arthurian Archives |
Release date: |
November 2000 |
First published: |
2000 |
Editors: |
David F. Johnson
(Royalty Account)
• Geert H.M. Claassens
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Dimensions: |
234 x 156 x 26mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
269 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-85991-605-9 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-85991-605-7 |
Barcode: |
9780859916059 |
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