Havelok (the Dane)

Havelok (the Dane)
Middle English metrical romance of some 3,000 lines, written с 1300.

Of the literature produced after the Norman Conquest, it offers the first view of ordinary life. Composed in a Lincolnshire dialect and containing many local traditions, it tells the story of the English princess Goldeboru and the orphaned Danish prince Havelok, who defeats a usurper to become king of Denmark and part of England.

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