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*The Song of the Cid
A Dual-Language Edition with
Parallel Text
Translated by Burton Raffel
Introduction and Notes by María Rosa
Menocal
Venture into the heart of Islamic Spain
in this vibrant, rollicking new translation
of The Song of the Cid, the only surviving
epic from medieval Spain. Banished from
the court of King Alfonso, the noble
warrior Rodrigo Diaz, know as the Cid,
sets out from Castile to restore his name
and make his fortune.
256 pp. 978-0-14-310565-7 $15.00
“a powerful epic of loyalty and betrayal—and
victory in battle. Burton Raffel . . . renders
The Song of the Cid in a lively, dramatic yet
informal style that conveys the heroic yet
humorous tone of the original.”
—the w a l l street journal
The Song of Roland
Translated with an Introduction and Notes
by Glyn Burgess
Chronicling the massacre in a.d. 778 of
Charlemagne’s army at Roncesvalles,
this age-old French epic transforms a
legendary defeat into an allegorical clash
between Christianity and paganism.
224 pp. 978-0-14-044532-9 $11.00
The Song of Roland
Translated with an Introduction by
Dorothy Sayers
Nowhere in literature is the medieval
code of chivalry more perfectly expressed
than in this masterly and exciting poem,
translated here by Dorothy Sayers, an expert
in medieval literature perhaps best known
for her sixteen crime novels.
208 pp. 978-0-14-044075-1 $13.00
The Táin
Translated with an Introduction by
Ciaran Carson
Dating from the eighth century, The
Táin is the oldest Irish epic, a mythic
tale on par with Beowulf and The Aeneid.
Following legendary warrior Cù Chulainn
into his battle against the invading army of
Connacht, it is the story of the emergence
of a hero, a paean to the Irish landscape,
and a bawdy and contentious marital
farce.
256 pp. 978-0-14-045530-4 $16.00
See Early Irish Myths and Sagas.
Tales from the Thousand and
One Nights
Translated with an Introduction by
N. J. Dawood
This volume includes the finest and best
known of the Tales, representing an
expression of the secular imagination in
revolt against the religious austerity of
other works of medieval Near Eastern
literature.
416 pp. 978-0-14-044289-2 $15.00
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