Excerpt from On the Middle English Metrical Romance of Emare The primitive form of the saga may be reconstructed by a careful comparison of the versions. In barest outline it was probably much as follows. A prince whose wife is dead desires to marry his daughter. On her refusal, her hands are cut off, and she ees with treasure to a foreign land. A young king hunting in a forest finds her, and marries her. During his absence in the wars she bears him a son (or two children). A traitor (generally her mother-in-law) forges a ...
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Excerpt from On the Middle English Metrical Romance of Emare The primitive form of the saga may be reconstructed by a careful comparison of the versions. In barest outline it was probably much as follows. A prince whose wife is dead desires to marry his daughter. On her refusal, her hands are cut off, and she ees with treasure to a foreign land. A young king hunting in a forest finds her, and marries her. During his absence in the wars she bears him a son (or two children). A traitor (generally her mother-in-law) forges a letter to the husband saying that the queen has borne a monster, and also, seeing that this produces no effect, forges a reply ordering the mother and child to be exposed or burnt. They are banished (in many versions, put in the sea), and protected in their exile' by a stranger. The queen's hands are restored. The husband on his return discovers the treachery, and burns the traitor. He ultimately rejoins his lost family. (afterwards the heroine is reconciled to her repentant father). About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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