Excerpt from Arthur: A Short Sketch of His Life and History, in English Verse, of the First Half of the Fifteenth Century As one of the chief objects of the Early English Text Society is to print every Early English Text relating to Arthur, the Committee have decided that this short sketch of the British hero's life shall form one of the first issue of the Society's pub lications. The six hundred and forty-two English lines here printed occur in an incomplete Latin Chronicle of the Kings of Britain, an abbreviation of the ...
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Excerpt from Arthur: A Short Sketch of His Life and History, in English Verse, of the First Half of the Fifteenth Century As one of the chief objects of the Early English Text Society is to print every Early English Text relating to Arthur, the Committee have decided that this short sketch of the British hero's life shall form one of the first issue of the Society's pub lications. The six hundred and forty-two English lines here printed occur in an incomplete Latin Chronicle of the Kings of Britain, an abbreviation of the Brut, bound up with many other valuable pieces in the Liber Rubens Bat/comm, 1428 a.d.,1 belonging to the Marquis of Bath. The old chronicler has dealt with Uther Pendragon, and is narrating Arthur's deeds, - telling of the siege of Bath, of Brounsteefl (excalibur) caliburm', gladii Arthuri, ' of the conquest of Scotland, Ireland, Gothland, and the founding of the Rotunda Tabula, made round that none should be above, none below, but all sit equal when, as if feeling that Latin prose was no fit vehicle for telling of Arthur, king of men, he breaks out into English verse. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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