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Bibliography
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL.
- A Manual of the Writings in Middle English, by J. E. Wells, Yale Univ. Press, 1916; supplements, 1919, 1923. For bibliography of the Middle English texts referred to in this edition.
- La Littérature Française au Moyen Age, by Gaston Paris, 3rd edition, Paris, 1915. For history and bibliography of Old French romances.
LITERARY HISTORY AND THE ANALOGUES.
- A Study of Gawain and the Green Knight, by G. L. Kittredge, Harvard Univ. Press, 1916.
- The Mabinogion, medieval Welsh romances translated into English by Lady Charlotte Guest, 1849, 1877; reprinted with notes by A. Nutt, 3rd edition, 1910. The French translation by J. Loth, Les Mabinogion, 2nd edition, Paris, 1912, is more accurate and more fully annotated.
- Historia Regum Britanniae, by Geoffrey of Monmouth, ed. Giles, London, 1844; ed. San Marte (A. Schulz), Halle, 1853; translated by S. Evans, Everyman Library, 1912. It is the origin or earliest record of much Arthurian matter.
- For bibliography of the Irish and French analogues of Sir Gawain, see pp. xii and xiii, and the bibliography in Kittredge’s study.
THE HISTORICAL SETTING.
- Accessible medieval hunting treatises useful for the interpretation of the hunting descriptions 1139 ff. are:
- The Art of Hunting, ed. Sir H. Dryden, 1843, and re-edited by Alice Dryden, Northampton, 1908. It contains: Twici’s Le Art de Venerie (in Anglo-Norman; Twici was huntsman to Edward II); a fifteenth-century of Twici entitled The Craft of Venery, and a translation in modern English of the thirteenth century French poem La Chace dou Cerf.
- The Master of Game. The oldest hunting treatise in English, written between 1406 and 1413 by Edward, second duke of York. Ed. W. A. Baillie Grohman, Edinburgh, 1904; 2nd (modernized) edition, London, 1909.
