Firumbras (version Ashmole)

Titre:	Aucun titre dans le ms.; Sir Ferumbras; Firumbras (version Ashmole)
Date:	Vers 1380
Langue:	Anglais
Genre:	Roman
Forme:	7130 vers (incomplet du début dans le ms. unique)
Contenu:	Version de la légende de Fierabras probablement inspirée de la chanson de geste française et d'une version anglaise perdue.
Incipit:	[le début manque] . . . Charlis doghti [knyȝtes] . . ta . le as þay a waywarde spedde mo þan a þausend with out . . . . slowe þai as þay fledde & drow hym . . . . wiþ on . . are ? with his host þat was pere. Ac Olyuer was a-woundede sare? at þat tyme wiþ a spere…
Explicit:	… In al þe werld ne miȝt be non fayrer wymman of flesch & bon, þan was þat creature. § Wan þys lordes had seyȝen hur naked, In alle manere wyse weel y-maked, on hure þay toke lekynge. Was non of hem þat ys flechs ne-raas, Noþer kyng, ne baroun, ne non þat was, sche was so fair a þynge. [la fin manque]

Manuscrits

Éditions anciennes

Éditions modernes

Sir Ferumbras, edited from the unique paper MS. about 1380 A. D. in the Bodleian Library (Ashmole MS. 33) by Sydney J. Herrtage, London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co. (Early English Text Society, Extra Series, 34; The English Charlemagne Romances, 1), 1879, xxxii + 255 p. [GB] [IA]

Traductions modernes

Études

Ailes, Marianne, A Comparative Study of the Medieval French and Middle English Verse Texts of the "Fierabras" Legend, Ph. D. dissertation, Reading University, 1989.
Ailes, Marianne, « Comprehension problems and their resolution in the Middle English verse translations of Fierabras », Forum for Modern Language Studies, 35:4, 1999, p. 396-407. DOI: 10.1093/fmls/XXXV.4.396
Czarnowus, Anna, Fantasies of the Other's Body in Middle English Oriental Romance, Frankfurt am Main, Peter Lang (Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature, 40), 2013, 233 p. [IA]