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Proud Knight, Fair Lady: The Twelve Lais of Marie De France
Proud Knight Fair Lady The Twelve Lais of Marie De France Author:Marie de France, Naomi Lewis, Angela Barrett Centuries before Andersen, Perrault, or the Brothers Grimm wrote down their immortal fairy tales, a twelfth century French poet, Marie, collected these marvellous tales from the minstrels who roamed Brittany and Celtic England, and turned them into magical stories in verse form known as lais, or lays. Here are tales of love, of valiant knight an... more »d proud ladies, of nobility and chivalry. Here, too, are swan messengers, wolf-knights, hawk princes, and a city where 'every single house and hall and tower seemed to be made of silver' - magical and wonderful happenings which form the very essence of fairy tale.« less