Verse romance · c. 1320

Sir Isumbras

by Anonymous (Middle English)

A tail-rhyme romance of a proud and prosperous knight who is warned by a bird to choose penance in this life. He loses wealth, wife and three sons, serves as a smith and a palmer, and at last regains all by God's mercy and wins a Christian kingdom from the Saracens.


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