Sir Orfeo and Robert Henryson's Orpheus and Eurydice: Modern English Prose Translations

This ebook presents Modern English prose translations of two medieval retellings of the legend of Orpheus and Eurydice, the first a Middle English romance from the early fourteenth century, Sir Orfeo, and the second a narrative from the late fifteenth century, Orpheus and Eurydice, by the Middle Scots poet Robert Henryson. The story they tell is famous from classical legend: Orpheus, the son of the god Apollo and the Muse Calliope, falls in love with and marries Eurydice but she is killed b...