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Editions

Ludovico Ariosto (for Orlando Furioso) 

John Barbour
The Bruce: A Selection; A. M. Kinghorn, ed. (pb) £6.00

Beowulf

[Buile Suibhne]: Sweeney Astray; trans. Seamus Heaney. (pb) £6.00

Chanson de Roland

Peter F. Ganz, ed.
Graf Rudolf. (pb) £6.00

Hartmann von Aue/Hartman von Ouwe

R. C. Johnston and J. A. Noonan, eds.
Passages for Translation from Old French, Selected from 12th-Century Writers; 2nd edn. (pb) £5.00

K. C. King, ed.
Das Lied vom hürnen Seyfrid. (hb) £10.00

Nibelungenlied

Poema de Mío Cid

Translations

Ludovico Ariosto (for Orlando Furioso) 

John Barbour
Tom Scott. Tales of King Robert the Bruce, freely adapted from The Brus of John Barbour (14th century). (pb) £4.00

Wilhelm Ruland
Legends of the Rhine. (hb) £5.00

J. R. R. Tolkien
The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún; ed. Christopher Tolkien. (hb) £8.50

Secondary sources

William Calin
A Muse for Heroes: Nine Centuries of the Epic in France. (hb) £10.00

Jo Ann Cavallo
Boiardo’s Orlando Innamorato: An Ethics of Desire. (hb) £15.00

Jerold C. Frakes
Brides and Doom: Gender, Property, and Power in Medieval German Women’s Epic. (hb) £11.00

Gwyn Jones
Kings, Beasts and Heroes. (hb) £6.50

Brian Murdoch
The Germanic Hero: Politics and Pragmatism in Early Medieval Poetry. (hb) £10.00

John J. O’Connor
Amadis de Gaule and its Influence on Elizabethan Literature. (hb) £6.00

Brian Powell and Geoffrey West, eds.
Al que en buen hora naçio: Essays on the Spanish Epic and Ballad in Honour of Colin Smith. (pb) £6.00

Jean Rychner
La Chanson de Geste: essai sur l’art épique des jongleurs. (pb) £6.00

Books & journals containing related material

[Journal].
Rice University Studies, vol. 62, no. 2 (Spring 1976): Medieval Miscellany. (pb) £10.00

Kimberlee Anne Campbell
The Protean text: A Study of Versions of the Medieval French Legend of “Doon and Olive”. (hb) £20.00

A. D. Deyermond, ed.
Medieval Hispanic Studies presented to Rita Hamilton. (pb) £20.00

K. C. King
Selected Essays on Medieval German Literature. (hb) £7.50

L. M. Paterson and S. B. Gaunt, eds.
The Troubadours and the Epic: Essays in Memory of W. Mary Hackett. (pb) £6.00

Karen Pratt, ed.
Shifts and Transpositions in Medieval Narrative: A Festschrift for Elspeth Kennedy. (hb) £12.00

E. E. Wardale
Chapters on Old English Literature. (hb) £6.00

R. M. Wilson
The Lost Literature of Medieval England; 2nd edn. (pb) £12.00

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