Chantefable (verse and prose) · early 13th century

Aucassin and Nicolete

The Song-Story of Aucassin and Nicolete

by Anonymous (Old French)

Translated by Andrew Lang (1887)

The tale of the Count of Biaucaire's son, who would rather lose his knighthood than his love for the Saracen slave girl Nicolete, told in alternating sung verse and spoken prose.


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