Firumbras

Titre:	Kynge Charlys (ms., expl.); Firumbras (éd. O'Sullivan)
Date:	Dernier quart du XIV^e siècle
Langue:	Anglais
Genre:	Roman
Forme:	1840 vers (incomplet du début)
Contenu:	Version de la légende de Fierabras inspirée de la chanson de geste française.
Incipit:	God for hys grace sschylde vs from schame Her basnettys and her helmys they lacydyn well And her gode swerdys that were made of stell…
Explicit:	… Nowe endyth thys gest nowe here Off Firumbras de Alsavndre and Sir Olyuer And also of Charlemayn that gode holy kyng Our Lord graunt that it so be Seyth all amen pur charite. Off the sarysins that were slawe in that wendyng. v.c.m' in Charlys tyme the kyng. Explicit Kynge Charlys.

Manuscrits

Éditions anciennes

Éditions modernes

"Firumbras" and "Otuel and Roland", edited from MS. British Museum Addit. 37492 by Mary Isabelle O'Sullivan, London, Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press (Early English Text Society. Original Series, 198), 1935, lxxxviii + 191 p. [IA]

Traductions modernes

en anglais:
- Ellis, George, Specimens of Early English Metrical Romances, Chiefly Written During the Early Part of the Fourteenth Century; to which is Prefixed an Historical Introduction, Intended to Illustrate the Rise and Progress of Romantic Composition in France and England. A new edition, revised by J. O. Halliwell, London, Bohn (Bohn's Antiquarian Library), 1848, viii + 600 p. (ici p. 379-404) [GB] [IA]
  Éditions antérieures:
  - Ellis, George, Specimens of Early English Metrical Romances, Chiefly Written During the Early Part of the Fourteenth Century; to which is Prefixed an Historical Introduction, Intended to Illustrate the Rise and Progress of Romantic Composition in France and England, London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme; Edinburgh, Constable, 1805, 3 t., vii + 387, [iv] + 404, [iv] + 419 p. [IA: t. 1, t. 2, t. 3]
  - Ellis, George, Specimens of Early English Metrical Romances, Chiefly Written During the Early Part of the Fourteenth Century; to which is Prefixed an Historical Introduction, Intended to Illustrate the Rise and Progress of Romantic Composition in France and England, London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1811, 3 t., vii + 408, [iv] + 419, [iv] + 432 p. [IA: t. 1, t. 2, t. 3]

Études

Ailes, Marianne, A Comparative Study of the Medieval French and Middle English Verse Texts of the "Fierabras" Legend, Ph. D. dissertation, Reading University, 1989.
Ailes, Marianne, « Comprehension problems and their resolution in the Middle English verse translations of Fierabras », Forum for Modern Language Studies, 35:4, 1999, p. 396-407. DOI: 10.1093/fmls/XXXV.4.396
Barron, W. R. J., English Medieval Romance, London et New York, Longman (Longman Literature in English Series), 1987, xiv + 288 p. [IA]
Czarnowus, Anna, Fantasies of the Other's Body in Middle English Oriental Romance, Frankfurt am Main, Peter Lang (Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature, 40), 2013, 233 p. [IA]