KING HORN
by Crossley-Holland, Kevin
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket
- Seller
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Macmillan. Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1965. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Dustjacket is protected in archival sleeve and taped to book. Dustjacket is worn at spine ends. ; Juvenile version of the classic tale. Romance of Horn is an Anglo-Norman literature romans d'aventure ("romance and adventure") tale written around 1170 by an anonymous author named "Thomas". The hero, named Horn, is the son of the king Aälof of Suddene (probably somewhere near Devon). Horn becomes orphaned when he is set adrift in a boat from the shores of southern England and reaches Brittany, where he grows to manhood and falls in love with the king's daughter Rigmel. There he defends the kingdom from invading Saracens, but the king banishes him to Ireland. In Ireland he falls in love once more with the king's daughter, but then finally returns to Brittany and, after a series of adventures, marries Rigmel, and eventually assumes the throne there. The story became the base for one of the earliest Middle English romances King Horn, written around 1225.; 8vo; 215 pages .
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- Seller
- Ancient World Books (CA)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 366
- Title
- KING HORN
- Author
- Crossley-Holland, Kevin
- Illustrator
- Charles Keeping
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Date Published
- 1965
- Keywords
- Mediaeval, Medieval, Mythology, Folklore & Mythology, Children's Books
- Bookseller catalogs
- Medieval Studies; Mythology;
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