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King Horn

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King Horn, probably the earliest English-language romance, written c.1250 and containing about 1,500 lines. It is by an anonymous author and is based on an earlier work in French. Emphasizing action and adventure, the poem relates the story of a heroic Scottish prince's successful fight to regain his kingdom after his expulsion by invaders.

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See edition ed. by J. Hall (1901); W. H. French, Essays on King Horn (1940).
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5) This is despite the fact that the rubric to the text in MS Harley 2253 describes it as a 'geste', (6) and despite the fact also that within the manuscript, there are no other texts of the same genre, in English or French, with which King Horn might be compared.
Kings and kingship in British Library MS Harley 2253 by Corrie, Marilyn / Yearbook of English Studies
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