Medievalists.net » Andrew of Wyntoun http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 05:01:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 A Question of Truth: Barbour’s Bruce, Hary’s Wallace and Richard Coer de Lion http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/13/a-question-of-truth-barbours-bruce-harys-wallace-and-richard-coer-de-lion/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/13/a-question-of-truth-barbours-bruce-harys-wallace-and-richard-coer-de-lion/#comments Sat, 13 Oct 2012 22:04:45 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=36486 Tempting though it is to assume that these poems are simply peculiarly Scots, to do so denies them their place in British literature. A survey of English romances, moreover, reveals what appears to be an English equivalent: Richard Coer de Lion. It is also a hybrid poem about a recent king and military leader.

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