Eugene Mason’s 1911 prose versions of the Lays of Marie de France, the twelfth-century poet who wrote in French at the English court, together with two other famous medieval love stories. Knights meet fairy mistresses, lovers are parted by jealous husbands, twins are abandoned and found, and a man is a werewolf by night.
The work of the first known woman poet in French, in a translation that reads easily today. Download the free EPUB.