Torrent, a young knight of Portugal, loves the princess Desonell, but her father the king keeps setting him impossible tasks, sending him against giants and dragons in the hope that he will not return. This fifteenth-century verse romance survives in a single manuscript, edited by E. Adam with an introduction on its metre and dialect.
A lively specimen of the popular tail-rhyme romance for readers of Middle English and medieval storytelling. Download the free EPUB.