Sir Orfeo

Editions, translations, and facsimiles

Facsimiles

  • Transcription from the National Library of Scotland Auchinleck manuscript

Editions

  • Gibbs, A. C. Middle English Romances. Evanston: Northwestern UP, 1966.
  • Bliss, A. J. Sir Orfeo. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1966.
  • Sisam, Kenneth, Sir Orfeo. In: Fourteenth Century Verse and Prose. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1921.
  • Sir Orfeo, from The Middle English Breton Lays, edited by Anne Laskaya and Eve Salisbury (Kalamazoo, Michigan: Medieval Institute Publications, 1995) [repr. in The Broadview Anthology of British Literature: Volume 1, The Medieval Period, ed. by Joseph Black and others (Toronto: Broadview Press, 2006), pp. 214–21].

Translations

  • Tolkien, J. R. R., Sir Orfeo. In: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Sir Orfeo. Translated by J. R. R. Tolkien. New York, Ballantine, 2003. (Following J.R.R. Tolkien's death, his son Christopher Tolkien found an unpolished translation of Sir Orfeo and published it in edited form with Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Pearl.)
  • Sir Orfeo Adapted from the Middle English by Edward Eyre Hunt, Cambridge : Harvard Coöperative Society, 1909.

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