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Tales from the Old French

Front matter

Isabel Butler translation

(book spine)
(book spine)
(front cover)
(front cover)
Tales from the Old French
Tales from the Old French

Tales from the Old French

(title page)
(title page)

Tales from the Old French

Translated by Isabel Butler

London Constable & Co. Ltd. Houghton Mifflin Co. Boston and New York Mdccccx

COPYRIGHT 1910 BY ISABEL BUTLER ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Contents
Contents
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THE LAY OF THE BIRD 3

THE WOFUL KNIGHT Marie de France 17

THE TWO LOVERS Marie de France 26

ELIDUC Marie de France 35

MELION 73

THE LAY OF THE HORN Robert Biquet 93

Fabliaux
Fabliaux

THE DIVIDED BLANKET Bernier 111

OF THE CHURL WHO WON PARADISE 125

THE GRAY PALFREY Huon Leroi 131

Contes dévots et didactiques
Contes dévots et didactiques

THE KNIGHT OF THE LITTLE CASK 173

THE ANGEL AND THE HERMIT 207

THE JOUSTING OF OUR LADY 228

THE ORDER OF CHIVALRY 232

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Epilogue
Epilogue

263

Bibliography
Bibliography

264

Translator's Note
Translator's Note
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