Thomas of Erceldoune

American  

[tom-uhs uhv ur-suhl-doon] / ˈtɒm əs əv ˈɜr səlˌdun /

noun

1. Thomas the Rhymer, c1220–97?, Scottish poet.

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Thomas of Erceldoune British  

/ ˈɜːsəlˌduːn /

noun

1. called Thomas the Rhymer. ?1220–?97, Scottish seer and poet; reputed author of a poem on the Tristan legend

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Example Sentences

A third legend centres in Thomas of Erceldoune.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 2 "Ehud" to "Electroscope" by Various

This leads us to the consideration of three English metrical Romances, which in all probability are derived from French sources, containing accounts of the visits to fairy-land made by Thomas of Erceldoune, Launfal, and Orfeo.

From The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream' by Sidgwick, Compiled by Frank

Thomas of Erceldoune, a personage less shadowy than some of those commemorated in this chapter, is known to have lived in the thirteenth century.

From The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology by Hartland, Edwin Sidney

The romance of Thomas of Erceldoune is a poem in three "fyttes" or sections, which is preserved wholly or in part in five manuscripts, of which the earliest may be dated about 1435.

From The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream' by Sidgwick, Compiled by Frank

A third point on which fairy-lore usually insists is that the steeds of the fairies shall be white; here Thomas of Erceldoune is at variance with the other poems, the elf-queen's palfrey being a dapple-grey.

From The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream' by Sidgwick, Compiled by Frank