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	The Power of Music in Medieval Literature -- Brenda Johnstone Flynn
		Orfeo, for his part, is a king who abandons his kingdom after the death of his wife, as well as a minstrel.
		Orfeo remains the Thracian king (although humorously, the poet assumes that the city of Winchester used to be called Thrace), and he remains a musician.
		Orfeo does not sing his way out of this argument, nor does he explain that it is entirely appropriate since he is her husband.
	www.tiltedworld.com /brenda/music/changeheart.html (4404 words)

	Sir Orfeo: Introduction
		It was a sacred instrument and the quality of its music was not to be confused with the secular entertainment of other music." [10] Certainly for a medieval Christian audience, the image could easily resonate with the numerous citheras of Old Testament kings and prophets, especially with the lyre of the psalm-writer, King David.
		In Sir Orfeo, the harp charms the animals, brings harmony where there was hostility, and is the one item which Orfeo carries over from his kingly world into his beggar world.
		Sir Orfeo: le substrat celtique du lai breton anglais.
	www.lib.rochester.edu /camelot/teams/orfint.htm (0 words)

	Sir Orfeo (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Sir Orfeo (c.1325) is the Ovidian story of Orpheus and Eurydice in Hades, probably via an unknown French source and Celtic legends.
		Orfeo doesn't look back; the steward proves faithful; there are no battles -- so there's very little tension at all.
		Orfeo favors the election of a successor by Parliament.
	www.wsu.edu /~delahoyd/medieval/orfeo.html (191 words)

	- Chapter 2
		Sir Orfeo left me to it while he went back up and joined in whatever they were doing on the other side of the forbidden door.
		Sir Orfeo was dressed in his usual tailored gray with a filament pistol strapped to his hip and a canteen and bush knife on the other side.
		Sir Orfeo never talked about himself or the other members of the party, or the world they came from, but he explained the details of the hunt to me, gave me pointers on tracking and approaching, told me which gun to use for different kinds of quarry.
	www.baen.com /library/0743435273/0743435273___2.htm (4788 words)

	Sir Orfeo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sir Orfeo is an anonymous Middle English narrative poem.
		Sir Orfeo is preserved in three manuscripts, Advocates 19.2.1 known as the Auchinleck MS.
		These motifs are shared by both Sir Orfeo and later-collected versions of Celtic ballad fairy-lore in such works as the ballads of Thomas the Rhymer and Tam Lin.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sir_Orfeo (405 words)

	Amazon.com: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Sir Orfeo: Books: J.R.R. Tolkien (Site not responding. Last check: )
		SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT, PEARL, and SIR ORFEO are masterpieces of a remote and exotic age--the age of chivalry and wizards, knights and holy quests.
		Sir Gawain and the Green Knight presents a late Arthurian legend which was penned in a relatively obscure West-Midland dialect of early Middle English.
		Sir Gawain was everything a knight should be considering the fact that he's not perfect due to the fact that he's human.
	www.amazon.com /Gawain-Green-Knight-Pearl-Orfeo/dp/0345277600 (2060 words)

	Poet Glas
		"Sir Orfeo" and the transformation of the tale's bete noire from god to elf is my tale and subject[1].
		Yes or no, the tree is still the boundary within Sir Orfeo and other tales wherein this world meets the next; like the King of Faerie, the tree is a remnant of earlier roots to this tale.
		Using the bare bones of the Orpheus myth, the Orfeo poet retells and finishes his polished tale with an English theme of high romance and chivalry.
	www.larp.com /glas/poet0026.htm (671 words)

	The Harper in Fairyland by Beth Vaughan
		Sir Orfeo followed the sound of horse’s hooves on the stone floor and he ran his hands along the cool, damp stone walls of the tunnel.
		Sir Orfeo reached up to feel his mussed, tangled hair and he looked down at his torn, dirty clothes.
		Sir Orfeo looked into the eyes of the King, then the Queen, and said right back at them, "You made a promise.
	www.spiritoftrees.org /folktales/vaughan/harper_in_fairyland.html (2704 words)

	Dan Thurston's Orfeo and the Other World
		Many of the names in the work seem to come almost directly from the myth, such Sir Orfeo and his wife Heurodis and the central plot action is remarkably similar: That of a minstrel traveling to another world in order to retrieve his wife from that world's powerful king.
		When Sir Orfeo arrives at the castle of the Fairy King, he is able to gain entry as a wandering minstrel.
		It is also interesting to note that Sir Orfeo holds the Fairy King to his rash promise, on the grounds that a true king can't lie.
	www.angelfire.com /scifi/thurston/orfeo.html (880 words)

	Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl and Sir Orfeo Mass Market Paperback edition Translated by J.R.R. Tolkien
		Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Pearl are two poems by an unknown author written in about 1400.
		Sir Gawain is a romance, a fairy-tale for adults, full of life and colour; but it is also much more than this, being at the same time a powerful moral tale which examines religious and social values.
		Sir Orfeo is a slighter romance, belonging to an earlier and different tradition.
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	King Orfeo [Child 19] (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Of the 50-odd Middle English romances, it is generally considered the best not by Chaucer or the Gawain-Poet or Marie of France ("Sir Orfeo," like the works of Marie, is considered a "Breton Lei").
		"Sir Orfeo" is now found in 3 MSS, with the earliest and best, the Auchinlek MS., from about 1330; the others, Harley 3810 and Ashmole 61, are of the fifteenth century.
		Sir Orfeo is, incidentally, one of the few Middle English romances to be generally praised by critics, for both its plot and for its well-handled poetry.
	www.csufresno.edu /folklore/ballads/C019.html (533 words)

	Curriculum Vitae of Kathy Shaughnessy Jambeck
		Although most scholars assume Sir Orfeo is a retelling of the Latin myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, few recognize the contribution of Celtic analogues to the tale.
		In fact, Celtic myth contributes details to Sir Orfeo that align it with twelfth-century French chivalric romances and their emphasis on the tension between public and private concerns, as exemplified in the conflict between Orfeo's responsibilities as king and his desire to be with his wife.
		While Sir Orfeo retains its distinctive Middle English characteristics, many of its narrative cruces may be clarified by inspecting them withing the context of twelfth-century French generic conventions.
	www.sp.uconn.edu /~mnelson/cv.html (1109 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: WITH Pearl and Sir Orfeo: Books: J.R.R. Tolkien (Site not responding. Last check: )
		"Sir Orfeo" is based on the classical myth of Orpheus and Euridice, where the characters are renamed by the anonymous poet as Orfeo and Heurodis.
		Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a tale of one of King Arthur's knight, Sir Gawain.
		Sir Orfeo is about King Orfeo whose daughter has been kidnapped by elves.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Sir-Gawain-Green-Knight-Pearl/dp/0261102591 (888 words)

	ENGL 311 assignments
		Write about the values suggested by the parodic lyrics “Sir John Doth Play” and “Jolly Jankyn,” bearing in mind the likely audience (see the editorial introduction to “Jack, the Nimble Holy-Water Clerk” on page 664 regarding critical assessments of the authors and audiences of these lyrics).
		Sir Gawain and the Green Knight presents the tail end of the tradition of medieval Arthurian literature.
		If you wrote about Sir Launfal and are interested in working with romance, then you’ll have to shift your focus to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight or Sir Orfeo, for example.
	www.cofc.edu /~seamanm/ENGL_311_assignments.htm (1475 words)

	Readings in Early English - Middle English Texts
		This passage is taken from the version of Sir Orfeo in the Auchinleck MS (MS Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Advocates’ 19.2.1).
		It seems likely that the poem Sir Orfeo was composed in the West Midlands of England; the rhyme owy: cri AWAY: CRY would only work in that dialect of ME, and it is interesting that in mid-line position the scribe has replaced the rarer form owy with more common oway.
		The passage which follows takes place just before Lady Heurodis is snatched away from her husband by the King of the Fairies; the abduction was prefigured in a dream, but Orfeo’s attempt to foil the fairy-king is doomed to failure.
	www.arts.gla.ac.uk /SESLL/EngLang/ugrad/readings/Middle/orfeo.htm (462 words)

	Sir Orfeo
		Sir Orfeo tells of the greatest harper that ever lived.
		The combination of mundane details of everyday life with the mystery of the other is as delightful today as it would have been in the fourteenth century.
		Together with Orfeo, the listener struggles to understand and ultimately to find resolution, not in logical coherence, but in melody and the rich interactions of music.
	english.boisestate.edu /Lzaerr/sirorfeo.htm (0 words)

	Sir Gawain and the Green Knight/Pearl/Sir Orfeo - 0345277600 - Internetbokhandeln.se
		Sir Gawain and the Green Knight/Pearl/Sir Orfeo - 0345277600 - Internetbokhandeln.se
		Det finns inga recensioner av Sir Gawain and the Green Knight/Pearl/Sir Orfeo än.
		Recensera Sir Gawain and the Green Knight/Pearl/Sir Orfeo här!
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	Brenda Johnstone Flynn: The Power of Music in Medieval Literature
		He is the grandson of Memoria and Jupiter and the son of the muse Caliope, "that maidyn meruailus,/ The ferde sister, of all musik maistresse,/ And moder to the king, sir Orpheus" (Henryson lines 43-45).
		Unlike Sir Orfeo, he stays there only long enough to deliver the lament for his wife before going in search of her.
		As in Sir Orfeo, however, Orpheus' primary weapon and first thought is his music, not his eloquence.
	www.voskrese.info /spl/BJForpheus.html (2426 words)

	Elfinspell: Sir Orfeo, Early English Romances in Verse done into Modern English by Edith Rickert; online text, ...
		While they were all making melody, Orfeo held him still and hearkened; and when all were quiet, he took his harp and tuned it shrill, and played the sweetest notes that ever man heard.
		Thereupon King Orfeo knew well that his steward was a true man and loved him as well as he deserved, and standing up, he spake as follows: “Lo, now, sir steward, hearken to this thing.
		The presumption is in favour of Orfeo, in tha t nothing of the sort occurs in the French original of the Lay of the Ash.
	www.elfinspell.com /EERSirOrfeo.html (3331 words)

	Bibliography
		Seth Lerer, "Artifice and Artistry in Sir Orfeo", Speculum 60 (1985), 92-109.
		That although the listener may learn from Orfeo, his "is not the kind of character who can be said to ‘learn’ anythin, since he lacks…breadth of consciousness" (p.
		Burke Severs, "The Antecedents of Sir Orfeo", in Studies in Medieval Literature in Honor of Professor Albert Croll Baugh, ed.
	www.csun.edu /~sk36711/WWW2/engl443/bibliography.htm (1332 words)

	Auchinleck MS Bibliography
		Foulet, L. "The Prologue of 'Sir Orfeo'." MLN 21 (1906): 46-50.
		Sir Orfeo, Lai le Fresne, and [from Trentham MS] Floris and Blanchefleur.
		Sir Tristrem: A Metrical Romance of the Thirteenth Century, by Thomas of Erceldoune, Called the Rhymer.
	faculty.washington.edu /miceal/auchinleck/biblio.html (2399 words)

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		Explain the Nature symbolism at the heart of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
		Use the portrait of The Knight in The Canterbury Tales and Gawain from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight to describe the ideal Medieval English Knight.
		Use several Middle English works of literature that we've read (or all of them) to explain the basics of the late medieval worldview (i.e., cosmology, ontology, axiology and epistemology).
	clem.mscd.edu /~tayljeff/311CXM2SG.htm (159 words)

	Lord of the Rings Fanatics Library (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics - the British Academy, Sir Israel Gollancz Memorial Lecture that revolutionized critical approaches to one of the grandest monuments of Anglo Saxon Germanic literature.
		Sir Orfeo - Tolkien's translation of this thirteenth/early fourteenth century poem about Sir Orfeo, a king of England in olden times whose wife is stolen by the Faerie King and after Sir Orfeo undergoes much travail, is rescued by him and returned to her proper estate.
		Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo - Tolkien's brilliant translation of the early fifteenth century poem that he had edited with E.V. Gordon in 1925; an 'Arthurian quest' poem, treating of Courtly Love and the Moral Law.
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	Reflections on Love and Marriage in Medieval Literature.
		For example, Sir Gawain in the story of "The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnell" marries the old hag without any remorse just to be of help to his lord, King Arthur.
		Fortunately for Sir Gawain, his marriage turns out to be one of those rare exceptions in which the husband and wife do fall in love with each other, not before but after they are married.
		Later, Sir Orfeo rescues his wife from the underworld governed by fairies using the strength of his love and his divine ability to make music by playing a harp.
	csis.pace.edu /grendel/projs994a/essay1.htm (2560 words)

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		After 10 years have passed, Heurodis is brought to Sir Orfeo Ten-year isolation = death, not of this world Transformation of Orfeo while in exile The harp enlivens the listeners Orfeo becomes a life giver!
		material life of Orpheus was not changed after Euridyce’s death Orfeo acknowledges his limitation as a mortal man (Cf.
		Orpheus) Orfeo does not challenge the Gods; accepts their decrees meekly.
	www3.sympatico.ca /skudsieh/Trent_English/Sir_Orfeo.doc (196 words)

	Texts in Contexts A: Breton Lays
		'Sir Orfeo', 'Lay le Freine' and 'Sir Launfal', Middle English Verse Romances ed.
		Longsworth, R.M. 'Sir Orfeo, The Minstrel and the Minstrel's Art,' Studies in Philology 79 (1982) 1-11.
		Ronquist, E.C. 'The Powers of Poetry in Sir Orfeo,' Philological Quarterly 64 (1985) 99-117.
	www.english.bham.ac.uk /medievalstudies/me/bretkey.htm (358 words)

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		SIR GAWAIN/ PEARL/ SIR ORFEO by Translated by J. Tolkien
		'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight ' and 'Pearl' are two poems by an unknown author written in about 1400.
		The three translations represent the complete rhyme and alliterative schemes of the originals.
	www.harpercollins.co.uk /books/default.aspx?id=3560 (212 words)

	Amazon.com: Pearl and Sir Orfeoa: Books: J. R. R. Tolkien (Site not responding. Last check: )
		While many readers are familiar with SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT (and perhaps even Tolkien's translation), these poems from the same fourteenth-century manuscript are less well known.
		PEARL the longer of the two, is an elegy for the poet's baby daughter, told in alliterative verse.
		SIR ORFEO is a Celtic version of the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, complete with a happy ending that the older story lacks.
	www.amazon.com /Pearl-Sir-Orfeoa-J-Tolkien/dp/0001053744 (1187 words)

	311C Exam 2 Study Guide (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Sir Orfeo with the Greek myth of Orpheus.
		Sir Orfeo reflect a different view of life than its classical source?
		Use the literature you have read for this exam to describe medieval English humor.
	clem.mscd.edu /~tayljeff/311CSm04XM2SG.htm (144 words)

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