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King Horn

noun

  1. the earliest extant verse romance (late 13th century) in the English language.



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The game is based loosely on the Old English tales of King Horn.

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King Horn is a heroic poem or gest of 1546 lines dating from the 13th century.

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Such was the case with the ancient gest of King Horn.

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There is a ballad of the young Hynd Horn which comes from the old narrative poem of King Horn or of Horn Childe.

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King Horn is remarkable for its metre—short rhyming couplets, but not in the regular eight-syllable lines which were imitated from the French.

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