Sir Tristrem
Sir Tristrem is a 13th-century Middle English romance of 3,344 lines, preserved in the Auchinleck manuscript in the National Library of Scotland.[1] Based on the Tristan of Thomas of Britain, it is the only surviving verse version of the Tristan legend in Middle English.[2]
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Sources
- Lacy, Norris J., ed. (1986). "Sir Tristrem". The Arthurian Encyclopedia. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press. pp. 515–6. ISBN 0-85115-253-8.
- Ackerman, Robert W. (1959). "English Rimed and Prose Romances". In Loomis, Roger Sherman (ed.). Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages, A Collaborative History. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 514–6. ISBN 0-19-811588-1.
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Editions
- Scott, Sir Walter, ed. (1809). Sir Tristem: A Metrical Romance of the Thirteenth Century (4 ed.). Edinburgh: Archibald Constable.
- McNeill, George P., ed. (1886). Sir Tristrem. Scottish Text Society 8. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons.
- Lupack, Alan, ed. (1994). "Sir Tristrem". Lancelot of the Laik and Sir Tristrem. The Middle English Texts Series. Kalamazoo, Michigan: Medieval Institute Publications.
- Burnley, David; Wiggins, Alison, eds. (2003). "Sir Tristrem". The Auchinleck Manuscript. Edinburgh: National Library of Scotland.
- Crofts, Thomas H. ed. and trans. (2025). Sir Tristrem: Study, Text, Translation. Translatio. Durham: Durham University IMEMS Press.