MEDIEVAL LITERATURE

The greatest of the Spanish mediaeval songs of deeds and one of the classic works in European literature bears the name of its hero, “el...

Medieval literature in both Latin and the vernacular is full of sharp, often bitter criticism of the world’s evils: the injustice of...

The Nibelungenlied, translated as The Song of the Nibelungs, is an epic poem in Middle High German. The story tells of dragon-slayer...

The cosmology of Norse mythology has "nine homeworlds" or "nine realms", unified by the world tree Yggdrasil. The Norse creation myth...

YVAIN, THE KNIGHT OF THE LION ONE OF THE FIRST BOOKS OF FRENCH LITERATURE Genre:novel 1st edition:1177 Themes:quest, bravery, Brittany,...

Tristan and Iseult is a tale made popular during the 12thcentury through Anglo-Norman literature, inspired by Celtic legend. It has...

The Völsunga saga (or Saga of the Völsungs) is a legendary saga, a late 13th century Icelandic prose rendition of the origin and decline...

Confessions (Latin: Confessiones) is the name of an autobiographical work, consisting of 13 books, by Saint Augustine of Hippo, written...

The Song of Roland (Old French, La Chanson de Roland) is the oldest surviving work of French literature, dating from the late 11th...