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Orfeo, Sir

The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature | 2003 | | Â© The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature 2003, originally published by Oxford University Press 2003. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

Orfeo, Sir, a material romance of the early 14th cent. in about 600 lines (in three varying manuscript versions), identified in its prologue as a Breton lay. It represents the story of Orpheus and Eurydice (see Orpheus) in a Celtic guise and with a happy ending, for the return of Queen Heurodys is permanent. The poem is one of the most charming and interesting of Middle English romances.

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