💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Chanson de geste"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| the song of roland | a 1978 French drama film directed by Frank Cassenti and starring Klaus Kinski. |
| roman de la rose | Le (The Romance of the Rose) a medieval poem written in Old French and presented as an allegorical dream vision. |
| troilus and criseyde | an epic poem by Geoffrey Chaucer which re-tells in Middle English the tragic story of the lovers Troilus and Criseyde set against a backdrop of war during the siege of Troy. |
| nibelungenlied | The (or ), translated as The Song of the Nibelungs, is an epic poem written around 1200 in Middle High German. |
| gaydon | a civil parish and village in the Stratford-on-Avon District of Warwickshire, England, situated between Leamington Spa and Banbury. |
| cad goddeu | a medieval Welsh poem preserved in the 14th-century manuscript known as the Book of Taliesin. |
| the testament of cresseid | a narrative poem of 616 lines in Middle Scots, written by the 15th-century Scottish makar Robert Henryson. |
| erec and enide | the first of Chrétien de Troyes' five romance poems, completed around 1170. |
| epicnoun | A series of events considered appropriate to an epic; any work of literature, film, etc. having heroic deeds and adventures as its subject matter. |
| o fortuna | "O Fortuna" is a medieval Latin Goliardic poem which is part of the collection known as the Carmina Burana, written in the early 13th century. |
| lancelot, the knight of the cart | Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart, is a 12th-century Old French poem by Chrétien de Troyes, although it is believed that Chrétien did not complete the text himself. |
| jerusalem delivered | Jerusalem Delivered, also known as The Liberation of Jerusalem, is an epic poem by the Italian poet Torquato Tasso, first published in 1581, that tells a largely mythified version of the First Crusade in which Christian knights, led by Godfrey of Bouillon, battle Muslims in order to take Jerusalem. |
| dream of the rood | — |
| il filostrato | "Il Filostrato" is a poem by the Italian writer Giovanni Boccaccio, and the inspiration for Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde and, through Chaucer, the Shakespeare play Troilus and Cressida. |
| perceval, the story of the grail | the unfinished fifth verse romance by Chrétien de Troyes, written by him in Old French in the late 12th century. |
| the knight's tale | "The Knight's Tale" is the first tale from Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. |
| a gest of robyn hode | (also known as A Lyttell Geste of Robyn Hode) one of the earliest surviving texts of the Robin Hood tales. |
| comedynoun | (countable, drama) a dramatic work that is light and humorous or satirical in tone |
| basinnoun | A depression, natural or artificial, containing water. |
| piers plowman | (written 1370–86; possibly ) or Visio Willelmi de Petro Ploughman (William's Vision of Piers Plowman) a Middle English allegorical narrative poem by William Langland. |
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