King Arthur and King Cornwall

Titre:	King Arthur and King Cornwall
Date:	Fin du XV^e siècle
Langue:	Anglais
Genre:	Roman
Forme:	303 vers
Contenu:
Incipit:	[le début manque] Saies, "Come here cuzen Gawaine so gay; my sisters sonne be yee; for you shall see one of the fairest Round Tables that ever you see with your eye."…
Explicit:	… as fast as he cold hye; and strucken he hath off King Cornwalls head, and came againe by and by. He put the head upon a swords point [la fin manque]

Manuscrits

London, British Library, Add MS 27879, p. 38-46 [⇛ Description]

Éditions anciennes

Éditions modernes

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. (ici p. 243-255) [GB] [IA]
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. 3, p. 88-102) [GB: t. 1, t. 2, t. 2:2, t. 3] [IA: t. 1, t. 2, t. 3]
The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, edited by Francis James Child. In five volumes, Boston et New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Company; Cambridge, Riverside Press; London, Stevens, 1882-1898, 10 t. en 5. (ici t. 1, p. 274-288) [IA: t. 1:1, t. 1:2, t. 2:1, t. 2:2, t. 3:1, t. 3:2, t. 4:1, t. 4:2, t. 5:1, t. 5:2]
Éditions antérieures:
- English and Scottish Ballads, edited by Francis James Child, Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1860, 8 t. [IA: t. 1, t. 2, t. 3, t. 4, t. 5, t. 6, t. 7, t. 8, t. 9, t. 10] [umich.edu: t. 1, t. 2, t. 3, t. 4, t. 5, t. 6, t. 7, t. 8]
- The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, edited by Francis James Child, Boston et New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Company; Cambridge, Riverside Press; London, Stevens, 1882-1898, 10 t. [IA: t. 1, t. 2, t. 3, t. 4, t. 5, t. 6, t. 7, t. 8, t. 9, t. 10]
Réimpression:
- New York, Dover Publications, 1965
Sir Gawain: Eleven Romances and Tales, edited by Thomas Hahn, Kalamazoo, Medieval Institute Publications (Middle English Texts), 1995, xi + 439 p. [metseditions.org]
The Arthurian Texts of the Percy Folio, edited by John Withrington, Liverpool, Liverpool University Press (Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies), 2023, 388 p. (ici p. 51-70) DOI: 10.3828/9781837645091 ISBN: 9781837645091, 9781836245230, 9781837644834, 9781835535233
Réimpression:
- 2025

Traductions modernes

Études

Jost, Jean E., « The role of violence in aventure: The Ballad of King Arthur and the King of Cornwall and The Turke and Gowin », Arthurian Interpretations, 2:2, 1988, p. 47-57.
Krappe, Alexander Haggerty, « Mediaeval literature and the comparative method », Speculum, 10, 1935, p. 270-276.

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