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Lai Breton
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Breton lay, poetic form so called because Breton professional storytellers supposedly recited similar poems, though none are extant. A short, rhymed romance recounting a love story, it includes supernatural elements, mythology transformed by medieval chivalry, and the Celtic idea of faerie, the land of enchantment. Derived from the late 12th-century French lais of Marie de France, it was adapted into English in the late 13th century and became very popular. The few extant English Breton lays include Sir Gowther (c. 1400), a version of the story of Robert the Devil; the incomplete, early 14th-century Lai le Freine; Sir Orfeo, a ...(100 of 170 words)

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