![]() For more medieval fun, you might also enjoy our interesting Robin Hood facts. ![]() It’s the perfect book for dipping into on a cold winter night, in front of the fire, while sipping a sherry or egg nog. All of these poems were written (or at least written down) some time during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries: our source for them is the excellent Penguin book of Medieval English Lyrics, 1200-1400 (Penguin Classics) which we’d thoroughly recommend if this post whets your appetite for more medieval marvellousness. This does mean that several words/phrases need glossing, so we’ve done this briefly before each poem. They are all presented in the original Middle English, because here at Interesting Literature we believe that that’s the best way to read the poems.
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