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LITERATURE OF THE NORMAN PERIOD, Selections for Reading., This is the most…

- - - - put into French verse by Gaimar (c. 1150)
      - by Wace (c. 1155)
      - these two turn in:
        
        From about 1200 onward Arthur and Guinevere and the matchless band of Celtic heroes that we meet later (1470) in Malory's Morte d' Arthur became the permanent possession of our literature.
- - - - A famous example of a metrical romance is Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
- - - - an intensely human and realistic picture of a father's grief for his little daughter Margaret,
      - "My precious perle wythouten spot." It is the saddest of all our early poems.
    - - moralizes on the basis of Bible stories;
    - - is a paraphrase of the book of Jonah;
  - - - Looking across the stream, he sees a lovely woman dressed in pearl-embroidered white robes. He realizes after some time that this woman is his dead two-year-old daughter.
      - They have a conversation as he tries to reconcile his feelings for her. book. The dreamer sees his daughter as a bride of Christ in the poem's final chapter.
      - The poem ends with a vision of the heavenly Jerusalem based on the Book of Revelation, the Bible's final
- - - - hen follows the founding of the Briton kingdom,
      - poem begins with the destruction of Troy and the flight of "Æneas the duke" into Italy. Brutus, a great-grandson of Æneas, gathers his people and sets out to find a new land in the West.
      - the last third of the poem, which is over thirty thousand lines in length, is taken up with the history of Arthur and his knights.
- - - - Normans
  - - - which is valuable as a source book of literature, since it contains the native Celtic legends of Arthur.
    - - i.e. history in doggerel verse, like Layamon's Brut.
    - - These were numerous, and of four classes:
        
        (a) the Matter of France, tales centering about Charlemagne and his peers, chief of which is the Chanson de Roland;
        
        (b) Matter of Greece and Rome, an endless series of fabulous tales about Alexander, and about the Fall of Troy;
        
        (c) Matter of England, stories of Bevis of Hampton, Guy of Warwick, Robin Hood, etc.;
        
        (d) Matter of Britain, tales having for their heroes Arthur and his knights of the Round Table.
        
        The best of these romances is Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
    - - Orm's Ormulum;.
      - Cursor Mundi, with its suggestive parallel to the Miracle plays; and ballads, like King Horn and the Robin Hood songs, which were the only poetry of the common people
      - and ballads, like King Horn and the Robin Hood songs, which were the only poetry of the common people