The awntyrs off Arthure at the Terne Wathelyn

Titre:	The awntyrs off Arthure at the Terne Wathelyn
Date:	Fin du XIV^e ou début du XV^e siècle
Langue:	Anglais
Genre:	Roman
Forme:	1148 vers
Contenu:
Incipit:	He that made us on the mulde, and fair fourmet the folde, atte His will, as He wold, the see and the sande…
Explicit:	… Now Jhesu Lord, Hevyn Kynge, He graunt us all His blessynge, and gife us all gode endinge, that made us on the mulde. Amen.

Manuscrits

Lincoln, Cathedral Library, 91 (A. I. 17), f. 154r [⇛ Description]
« Thornton manuscript ».
London, Lambeth Palace Library, 491 B
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Douce, 324
Princeton, University Library, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Taylor Medieval, 9, f. 1r-15v [⇛ Description]

Éditions anciennes

Éditions modernes

Chronicle of Scottish Poetry; from the Thirteenth Century, to the Union of the Crowns: to which is added a glossary, by J. Sibbald, Edinburgh, Sibald, Hill et Ross and Blackwood; London, Nicol et Longman and Rees, 1802, 4 t. (ici t. 1, p. xv-xxviii) [GB: t. 1, t. 2, t. 3, t. 4] [IA: t. 1, t. 2, t. 3, t. 4]
Syr Gawayne; a Collection of Ancient Romance-Poems, by Scotish and English Authors, Relating to that Celebrated Knight of the Round Table, with an introduction, notes, and a glossary. By Sir Frederic Madden, London, Taylor, 1839, lxix + 431 p. [GB] [IA]
Three Early English Metrical Romances. With an introduction and glossary. Edited from a MS. in the possession of J. I. Blackburne, Esq. M.P., by John Robson, London, Camden Society, 1842, xlv + 132 p. (ici p. 1-26 et 94-100) [GB] [IA: ex. 1, ex. 2]
Réimpression:
- Three Early English Metrical Romances. With an introduction and glossary. Edited from a MS. in the possession of J. I. Blackburne, Esq. M.P., by John Robson, New York et London, Johnson Reprint, 1968, xlv + 132 p. [IA]
Édition d'après le ms. de Princeton, dit « Ireland MS. ».
Select Remains of the Ancient Popular and Romance Poetry of Scotland, collected and edited by David Laing. Re-edited, with memorial-introduction and additions by John Small, Edinburgh et London, Blackwood, 1885, xxxviii + 411 p. (ici p. 81-113) [GB] [IA]
Édition antérieure:
- Select Remains of the Ancient Popular Poetry of Scotland, [éd. David Laing], Edinburgh, Balfour and Clarke, 1822. [GB] [IA]
Early Popular Poetry of Scotland and the Northern Border, edited by David Laing LL. D. in 1822 and 1826, re-arranged and revised with additions and a glossary by W. Carew Hazlitt, London, Reeves and Turner (Library of Old Authors), 1895, 2 t. (ici t. 1, p. 1-42) [GB: t. 1, t. 2] [IA: t. 1, t. 2]
Scottish Alliterative Poems in Riming Stanzas, edited with introduction, appendix, notes, and glossary by F. J. Amours, Edinburgh et London, Blackwood for The Scottish Text Society, 1897, xci + 481 p. [GB] [IA: ex. 1, ex. 2]
The Awntyrs off Arthure at the Terne Wathelyne: a critical edition [by] Robert J. Gates, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press (The Haney Foundation Series, 5), 1969, viii + 267 p.
The Awntyrs off Arthure at the Terne Wathelyn: an edition based on Bodleian library Ms. Douce 324 by Ralph Hanna III, Manchester, Manchester University Press; New York, Barnes and Noble (Old and Middle English Texts), 1974, x + 190 p.
Ywain and Gawain; Sir Percyvell of Gales; The Anturs of Arther, edited with an introduction and commentary by Maldwyn Mills; consultant editor for this volume, Malcolm Andrew, London, Dent; Rutland, Tuttle (Everyman's Library), 1992, xxxviii + 210 p.
Sir Gawain: Eleven Romances and Tales, edited by Thomas Hahn, Kalamazoo, Medieval Institute Publications (Middle English Texts), 1995, xi + 439 p. [lib.rochester.edu]

Traductions modernes

en anglais:
- The Knightly Tales of Sir Gawain, with introductions and translations by Louis B. Hall, Chicago, Nelson-Hall, 1976, [v] + 186 p. (ici p. 49-72) [IA]

Études

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Allen, Rosamund, « The Awntyrs off Arthure: jests and jousts », Romance Reading on the Book: Essays on Medieval Narrative Presented to Maldwyn Mills, éd. J. Fellows, R. Field, G. Rogers et J. Weiss, Cardiff, University of Cardiff Press, 1996, p. 129-142.
Allen, Rosamund, « Place-names in the Awntyrs off Arthure », Arthurian Studies in Honour of P. J. C. Field, éd. Bonnie Wheeler, Cambridge, Brewer, 2004, p. 181-198.
Breeze, Andrew, « The Awntyrs off Arthure, Cywryd of Kent, and Lavery Burn », Notes and Queries, n. s., 45:4, 1998, p. 431-432. DOI: 10.1093/nq/45.4.431
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Eadie, John, « Two notes on The Awntyrs of Arthure », English Language Notes, 21:2, 1983, p. 3-7.
Fichte, J. O., « The Awyntyrs off Arthure: an unconscious change of the paradigm of adventure », The Living Middle Ages: Studies in Mediaeval English Literature and Its Tradition; A Festschrift for Karl Heinz Göller, éd. Uwe Böker, Manfred Markus et Rainer Schöwerling, Stuttgart, Belser, 1989, p. 132.
Hanna, Ralph, III, « The Awntyrs off Arthure: an interpretation », Modern Language Quarterly, 31, 1970, p. 275-297.
Hanna, Ralph, III, « À la recherche du temps bien perdu: the text of The Awntyrs off Arthure », Text, 4, 1988, p. 189-205.
Haught, Leah, « Ghostly mothers and fated fathers: gender and genre in The Awntyrs off Arthure », Arthuriana, 20:1, 2010, p. 3-24. [jstor.org]
Jost, Jean E., « Margins in Middle English romance: culture and characterization in The Awntyrs off Arthure at the Terne Wathelyne and The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnell », Meeting the Foreign in the Middle Ages, éd. Albrecht Classen, New York, Routledge, 2002, p. 133-152.
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Lowe, Virginia A. P., « Folklore as unifying factor in The Awntyrs off Arthure », Folklore Forum, 13, 1980, p. 199-223.
Grey Martin, Carl, « The Awntyrs off Arthure, an economy of pain », Modern Philology, 108:2, 2010, p. 177-198. DOI: 10.1086/657431
Mastuda, Takami, « The Awntyrs off Arthure and the Arthurian history », Poetica, 19, 1983, p. 48-62.
Mathewson, Jeanne T., « Displacement of the feminine in Golagros and Gawane and the Awntyrs off Arthure », Arthurian Interpretations, 1:2, 1987, p. 23-28. [jstor.org]
Matthews, William, The Tragedy of Arthur, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1960.
Moll, Richard J., Before Malory: Reading Arthur in Later Medieval England, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2003, ix + 368 p. ISBN: 9780802037220
Patch, Howard R., The Goddess Fortuna in Mediaeval Literature, Cambridge (USA), Harvard University Press, 1927, xii + 215 p. [GB] [IA]
Réimpression:
- Patch, Howard R., The Goddess Fortuna in Mediaeval Literature, New York, Octagon Books, 1967, xii + 215 p. [IA]
Phillips, Helen, « The ghost's baptism in The Awntyrs off Arthure », Medium Ævum, 58, 1989, p. 53.
Phillips, Helen, « The Awntyrs off Arthure: structure and meaning, a reassessment », Arthurian Literature, 12, 1993, p. 69-83.
Schiff, Randy P., « Borderland subversions: anti-imperial energies in The Awntyrs off Arthure and Golagros and Gawane », Speculum, 84:3, 2009, p. 613-632. DOI: 10.1017/s0038713400209329
Spearing, A. C., « The Awntyrs off Arthure », The Alliterative Tradition in the Fourteenth Century, éd. Bernard S. Levy et Paul E. Szarmach, Kent, Kent State University Press, 1981, p. 183-202.
Spearing, A. C., « Central and displaced sovereignty in three medieval poems », Review of English Studies, 33, 1982, 247-261.
Turville-Petre, Thorlac, « Summer Sunday, De tribus regibus mortuis, and The Awntyrs off Arthure: three poems in the thirteen-line stanza », Review of English Studies, 24, 1974, p. 1-14.
Twu, Krista Sue-Lo, « The Awntyrs off Arthure at the Terne Wathelyne: reliquary for romance », Arthurian Literature, 20, 2003, p. 103-122.
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Compte rendu:
Yin Liu, dans The Medieval Review, 09.11.11. [www]

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