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... Romance of the Holy Graal , some- times also called The Romance of Joseph of Arimathea , which was written at least twenty years later than Geoffrey of Mon- mouth's Chronicle . It is professedly told by a hermit , to whom in the year ...
... Romance of the Holy Graal , some- times also called The Romance of Joseph of Arimathea , which was written at least twenty years later than Geoffrey of Mon- mouth's Chronicle . It is professedly told by a hermit , to whom in the year ...
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... romance is rich in delicate poetical invention . Lancelot is the bright pattern of a knight according to the flesh , cleared in one respect of many scattered offences , which are concentrated in a single blot , represented always as a ...
... romance is rich in delicate poetical invention . Lancelot is the bright pattern of a knight according to the flesh , cleared in one respect of many scattered offences , which are concentrated in a single blot , represented always as a ...
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... romances from French into English verse during the reign of Henry III . The most notable of these were " King Horn " and the " Romance of Alexander . " King Horn belongs to an Anglo - Danish cycle of romance , from which the Norman ...
... romances from French into English verse during the reign of Henry III . The most notable of these were " King Horn " and the " Romance of Alexander . " King Horn belongs to an Anglo - Danish cycle of romance , from which the Norman ...
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