The avowyng of Arthur

Titre:	The avowyng of Arthur; The avowing of Arthur
Date:
Langue:	Anglais
Genre:	Roman
Forme:	1148 vers (quatrains)
Contenu:
Incipit:	He that made us on the mulde, and fair fourmet the folde, atte His will, as He wold, the see and the sande…
Explicit:	… Now Jhesu Lord, Hevyn Kynge, He graunt us all His blessynge, and gife us all gode endinge, that made us on the mulde. Amen.

Manuscrits

Éditions anciennes

Éditions modernes

Three Early English Metrical Romances. With an introduction and glossary. Edited from a MS. in the possession of J. I. Blackburne, Esq. M.P., by John Robson, London, Camden Society, 1842, xlv + 132 p. (ici p. 57-93 et 105-110) [GB] [IA: ex. 1, ex. 2]
Réimpression:
- Three Early English Metrical Romances. With an introduction and glossary. Edited from a MS. in the possession of J. I. Blackburne, Esq. M.P., by John Robson, New York et London, Johnson Reprint, 1968, xlv + 132 p. [IA]
Middle English Metrical Romances, edited by Walter Hoyt French and Charles Brockway Hale, New York, Russell and Russell, 1964, 2 t. (ici t. 2, p. 607-646) [IA: t. 1-2]
Édition antérieure:
- Middle English Metrical Romances, edited by Walter Hoyt French and Charles Brockway Hale, New York, Prentice-Hall, 1930, 2 t. [IA: t. 1-2]
Sir Amadace and The Avowing of Arthur: Two Romances from the Ireland MS, edited by Christopher Brookhouse, København, Rosenkilde og Bagger (Anglistica, 15), 1968, 156 p.
The Avowing of King Arthur, edited by Roger Dahood, New York et London, Garland, 1984, 157 p.
Sir Gawain: Eleven Romances and Tales, edited by Thomas Hahn, Kalamazoo, Medieval Institute Publications (Middle English Texts), 1995, xi + 439 p. [lib.rochester.edu]

Traductions modernes

en anglais:
- The Knightly Tales of Sir Gawain, with introductions and translations by Louis B. Hall, Chicago, Nelson-Hall, 1976, [v] + 186 p. (ici p. 127-151) [IA]
- The Avowing of King Arthur: a modern verse translation [by] Nirmal Dass, New York, University Press of America, 1987.

Études

Ackerman, Robert W., « The Avowing of King Arthur, Sir Gawain, Sir Kay, and Baldwin of Britain », Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages: A Collaborative History, éd. Roger Sherman Loomis, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1959 [réimpr.: 1961; 1967; 1974; 1979; London, 2001], p. 499-500.
Burrow, J. A., « The Avowing of King Arthur », Medieval Literature and Antiquities: Studies in Honor of Basil Cottle, éd. Myra Stokes et T. L. Burton, Woodbridge, Brewer, 1987, p. 99-109.
Greenlaw, Edwin A., « The vows of Baldwin. A study in mediæval fiction », Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 21:3, 1906, p. 575-636. [GB] [HT] [IA] DOI: 10.2307/456767
Johnson, David, « The real and the ideal: attitudes to love and chivalry in The Avowing of King Arthur », Companion to Middle English Romance, éd. Henk Aertsen et Alasdair A. MacDonald, Amsterdam, VU University Press, 1990, p. 189-208.
Kittredge, G. L., « The Avowing of Arthur », Modern Language Notes, 8:8, 1893, p. 251-252. [GB] [HT] [IA] DOI: 10.2307/2919379
Kittredge, G. L., « Correction: The Avowing of Arthur », Modern Language Notes, 9:1, 1894, p. 31. [GB] [HT] [IA] DOI: 10.2307/2918778