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Havelok

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Havelok (the Dane)

Middle English metrical romance of some 3,000 lines, written c. 1300. Of the literature produced after the Norman Conquest, it offers the first view of ordinary life. Composed in a Lincolnshire dialect and containing many local traditions, it tells the story of the English princess Goldeboru and the orphaned Danish prince Havelok, who defeats a usurper to become king of Denmark and part of England.


Havelok
right makes might as gallant prince triumphs. [Dan. Lit.: Havelok the Dane]
See : Bravery


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