Ipomadon
By: edited by Rhiannon Purdie.
Contributors: Purdie, Rhiannon.; Early English Text Society.
Series: Early English Text Society ;; no. 316; Early English Text Society (Series) ;; no. 316.
Publisher: Published for the Early English Text Society by the Oxford University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: enm; eng
Number of pages: 366
Subjects: Romances -- Translations into English
Genres: Translations into English.
Description: "Ipomadon is a Middle English translation of the twelfth-century Anglo-Norman romance, Ipomedon, by Hue de Rotelande. The romance was translated into English three times in the medieval period; this edition contains the fullest version, Ipomadon A. The complete text has only been available hitherto in E. Kolbing's German edition of 1889." "This new edition includes a glossary and full explanatory notes, and discussion of the language of the text, together with a full comparison of the different versions of this popular story."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: The fullest of the three known Middle English translations from the Anglo-Norman, previously only available in E. Kölbing's German ed. of 1889.
Text in Middle English with introduction and notes in modern English.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Author: Hue de Rotelande.