Verse romance · c. 1350

Sir Eglamour of Artois

by Anonymous (Middle English)

A tail-rhyme romance of Sir Eglamour, who wins the love of Christabel, daughter of the Earl of Artois, by slaying a giant and a monstrous boar, and by killing a dragon at Rome. After long separation, their child, carried off by a griffin, grows up to be a knight and, unknowing, is wed to his own mother, until a token reveals the truth and the family is reunited.


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