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Arthur: A Short Sketch of His Life and History in English Verse of the First Half of the Fifteenth Century

by Frederick J. Furnivall

2018-11-27 17:35:04

As one of the chief objects of the Early English Text Society is to print every Early English Text relating to Arthur, the Committee have decided that this short sketch of the British hero's life shall form one of the first issue of the Society's pub ... Read more
As one of the chief objects of the Early English Text Society is to print every Early English Text relating to Arthur, the Committee have decided that this short sketch of the British hero's life shall form one of the first issue of the Society's publications. The six hundred and forty-two English lines here printed occur in an incomplete Latin Chronicle of the Kings of Britain, bound up with many other valuable pieces in a MS. belonging to the Marquis of Bath. The old chronicler has dealt with Uther Pendragon, and Brounsteele (Excalibur), and is narrating Arthur's deeds, when, as if feeling that Latin prose was no fit vehicle for telling of Arthur, king of men, he breaks out into English verse, Less

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Frederick J. Furnivall
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Frederick James Furnivall was an English philologist. He one of the co-creators of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) He founded a number of learned societies on early English Literature, and made...

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