Sir Tristrem

Sir Tristrem is a 13th-century Middle English Romance of 3,344 lines, preserved in the Auchinleck manuscript in the National Library of Scotland.[1] Based on the Tristan of Thomas of Britain, it is the only surviving verse version of the Tristan legend in Middle English.[2]

Notes
  1. Lacy 1986.
  2. Ackerman 1959.

Sources
  • Lacy, Norris J., ed. (1986). "Sir Tristrem". The Arthurian Encyclopedia. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press. pp. 515–6. ISBN 0-85115-253-8.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Ackerman, Robert W. (1959). "English Rimed and Prose Romances". In Loomis, Roger Sherman (ed.). Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages, A Collaborative History. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 514–6. ISBN 0-19-811588-1.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

Editions
  • Scott, Sir Walter, ed. (1809). Sir Tristem: A Metrical Romance of the Thirteenth Century (4 ed.). Edinburgh: Archibald Constable.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • McNeill, George P., ed. (1886). Sir Tristrem. Scottish Text Society 8. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)


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