Guy of Warwick

Informationen zum Autor William B. Todd (1919¿2011) was Professor of English at the University ofTexas at Austin. Klappentext A translation of a heroic romance originally composed about 1240 A.D. Zusammenfassung A translation of a heroic romance originally composed about 1240 A.D. Inhaltsverzeichnis Here begins the Table to the Present Book. And first: The Editor’s Introduction The Author’s Prologue 1. How Earl Roalt had a fair daughter named Felicia, surpassing in beauty all other dames and damsels, and sent for Guyonet the son of his seneschal to live at his court 2. How Earl Roalt conducted Guyonet to his daughter Felicia and gave him to her for a page, recommending him above all other lords 3. How Guyonet began to love his mistress Felicia, and returned to his chamber after having served her at table, making complaints and lamentations 4. How Guyonet, looking towards the tower where the fair Felicia was, began to weep afresh inasmuch that he fainted and fell upon his bed like one who is dead; and how Herolt Dardenne, his head governor, blamed him for not having been in waiting upon his mistress 5. How Guy was constrained to tell his governor the sorrow which pressed upon his heart 6. How Herolt informed the fair Felicia that Guy was so transported with love of her that he was in danger of death, at which she was much displeased 7. How Felicia desired Guyonet’s governor to cause him to speak to her when he should be recovered from his illness 8. How Guyonet went to Felicia upon the recital of his governor and discovered his love to her 9. How Guy was more grieved than before, on account of the refusal of the fair Felicia, and went to the garden where the said Felicia saw him faint and sent him her cousin to console him 10. How Felicia placed Guy in her lap to make him recover from his fainting, consoling him and telling him that he must be a knight to acquire fame and renown 11. How Guy was made a knight and returned to the fair Felicia, who told him that, since he had received the order of knighthood, he must follow after merit and feats of arms to possess and acquire praise 12. How Guy begged leave of the Earl, the father of Felicia, and of his own father, Sequart, to go beyond sea in order to acquire fame and honour 13. How Guy as he was at the window, and saw lances and arms pass through the streets, asked his host of Rouen what these things meant; by which means he was told of the tournament which was to be held without the city 14. How Guy looked on at the tilting matches and afterwards fought against Gaher, the son of the Emperor, and beat him to the ground twice, and at last mounted his horse in spite of all his enemies 15. How Herolt overthrew the Duke of Moraine and the Count Valdemar; and how also Guy obtained the highest praise from the Emperor’s daughter, and moreover wounded Duke Othes through the body, and overthrew Duke Reiner of Cessoigne 16. How Blanchefleur, daughter of the Emperor, decided among her ladies that the knight with the shield paled or and azure tilted better and did more than all the others 17. How the messenger of Blanchefleur brought the falcon to Guy which she sent him, with the other presents, telling him that she greatly desired to see him 18. How Guy sent two servants into England to take the presents which Blanchefleur had made him, that is to say, the falcon to his lady Felicia, and to Earl Roalt the palfrey and the two greyhounds 19. How Guy, after he had been in Normandy, returned into England and was joyfully received by Earl Roalt and by his daughter Felicia 20. How Guy, by the desire of Felicia, took leave of the Earl to go upon his adventures, and how she gave him an enchanted ring 21. How Guy came into little Brittany, where he gained honour in various adventures and cut off the head of a wicked and cruel tyrant who was of small stature, and then went into Spain as a knight errant to acquire fame and renown 22. Ho...

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• Authors: William B. Todd
• Assisted by: William B. Todd (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Texas Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.1968
• EAN: 9780292742291
• ISBN: 978-0-292-74229-1
• No. of pages: 192
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies