Eger and Grime

Titre:	The History of Sir Eger, Sir Grahame, and Sir Gray-Steel; Eger and Grime
Date:	Vers 1450
Langue:	Anglais
Genre:	Roman
Forme:	1474 vers
Contenu:
Incipit:	It ffell sometimes in the land of Beame there dwelled a lord within that realme; the greatest he was of renowne eccept the King that ware the crowne…
Explicit:	… And thus they liued and made endinge: to the blisse of heauen their soules bringe! I pray Iesus that wee soe may; bring vs the blisse that lasteth aye. Ffinis.

Manuscrits

Éditions anciennes

The history of Sir Eger, Sir Grahame, and Sir Gray-Steel
Glasgow, Robert Sanders, 1669
ARLIMA: EA2889
Exemplaire en ligne: [EEBO]
The history of Sir Eger, Sir Grahame, and Sir Gray-Steel
[Glasgow], [Robert Sanders], 1687
ARLIMA: EA2890
The history of Sir Eger, Sir Grahame, and Sir Gray-Steel, newly corrected and amended
Aberdeen, James Nicol, 1711
ARLIMA: EA2891

Éditions modernes

Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript. Ballades and Romances. Edited by John W. Hales and Frederick J. Furnivall, London, Trübner and Co., 1867-1868, 3 t. (ici t. 1, p. 341-400) [GB: t. 1, t. 2, t. 2:2, t. 3] [IA: t. 1, t. 2, t. 3]
Eger and Grime: an early English romance. Edited from Bishop Percy's folio MS., about 1650 A. D. by John W. Hales and Frederick J. Furnivall, London, Trübner, 1867, 64 p. [GB] [IA]
Early Scottish Metrical Tales, edited, with introductions, by David Laing. New edition, London, Hamilton, Adams and Co.; Glasgow, Morison, 1889, viii + 318 p. [GB] [IA: ex. 1, ex. 2]
Édition antérieure:
- Early Metrical Tales; Including the History of Sir Egeir, Sir Gryme, and Sir Gray-Steill, éd. David Laing, Edinburgh, Laing; London, Duncan, 1826, lxiii + 310 p. [GB] [IA: ex. 1, ex. 2]
Eger and Grime: a parallel-text edition of the Percy and the Huntington-Laing versions of the romance with an introductory study by James Ralston Caldwell, Cambridge, Harvard University Press (Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature, 9), 1933, ix + 353 p. [IA]
Middle English Metrical Romances, edited by Walter Hoyt French and Charles Brockway Hale, New York, Russell and Russell, 1964, 2 t. (ici t. 2, p. 671-717) [IA: t. 1-2]
Édition antérieure:
- Middle English Metrical Romances, edited by Walter Hoyt French and Charles Brockway Hale, New York, Prentice-Hall, 1930, 2 t. [IA: t. 1-2]

Traductions modernes

en anglais:
- Ellis, George, Specimens of Early English Metrical Romances, Chiefly Written During the Early Part of the Fourteenth Century; to which is Prefixed an Historical Introduction, Intended to Illustrate the Rise and Progress of Romantic Composition in France and England. A new edition, revised by J. O. Halliwell, London, Bohn (Bohn's Antiquarian Library), 1848, viii + 600 p. (ici p. 546-567) [GB] [IA]
  Éditions antérieures:
  - Ellis, George, Specimens of Early English Metrical Romances, Chiefly Written During the Early Part of the Fourteenth Century; to which is Prefixed an Historical Introduction, Intended to Illustrate the Rise and Progress of Romantic Composition in France and England, London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme; Edinburgh, Constable, 1805, 3 t., vii + 387, [iv] + 404, [iv] + 419 p. [IA: t. 1, t. 2, t. 3]
  - Ellis, George, Specimens of Early English Metrical Romances, Chiefly Written During the Early Part of the Fourteenth Century; to which is Prefixed an Historical Introduction, Intended to Illustrate the Rise and Progress of Romantic Composition in France and England, London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1811, 3 t., vii + 408, [iv] + 419, [iv] + 432 p. [IA: t. 1, t. 2, t. 3]

Études

Hasler, Antony J., « Romance and its discontents in Eger and Grime », The Spirit of Medieval English Popular Romance, éd. Ad Putter et Jane Gilbert, Harlow, Longman (Longman Medieval and Renaissance Library), 2000, p. 200-218.
Réimpression:
- Abingdon, Routledge, 2013
Hibbard (Loomis), Laura A., Mediæval Romance in England: A Study of the Sources and Analogues of the Non-Cyclic Metrical Romances. New edition with supplementary bibliographical index (1926-1959), New York, Franklin (Burt Franklin Bibliographical Reference Series, 17), 1963, viii + 350 p. (ici p. 312-319) [IA]
Éditions antérieures:
- Hibbard, Laura A., Mediæval Romance in England: A Study of the Sources and Analogues of the Non-Cyclic Metrical Romances, New York, Oxford University Press, 1924, viii + 342 p. [HT] [IA]
- Hibbard (Loomis), Laura A., Mediæval Romance in England: A Study of the Sources and Analogues of the Non-Cyclic Metrical Romances. New edition with supplementary bibliographical index (1926-1959), New York, Franklin (Burt Franklin Bibliographical Reference Series, 17), 1960, viii + 350 p. [HT] [IA]
Reichel, Georg, Studien zu der schottischen Romanze The History of Sir Eger, Sir Grime and Sir Gray-Steel. I-IV, Darmstadt, Otto's Hof-Buchdruckerei, 1893, 32 p. [GB] [IA]
Van Duzee, Mabel, A Medieval Romance of Friendship: Eger and Grime New York, Burt Franklin (Selected Papers in Literature and Criticism, 2), 1963, ix + 198 p. [IA: ex. 1, ex. 2]