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Aucassin and Nicolete

Andrew Lang

Book Overview: 

Aucassin and Nicolette is a medieval romance written in a combination of prose and verse called a “song-story.” Created probably in the early 13th century by an unknown French author, the work deals with the love between the son of a count and a Saracen slave girl who has been converted to Christianity and adopted by a viscount. Since Aucassin’s father is strongly opposed to their marriage, the two lovers must endure imprisonment, flight, separation in foreign lands, and many other ordeals before their ardent love and fierce determination finally bring them back together. Aucassin is the very model of an intrepid knight, totally devoted to his love; and Nicolette is daring and ingenious in her staunch perseverance against all odds.

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .rvellous, and so mortal that never a day dawned but alway he was there, by the gates and walls, and barriers of the town with a hundred knights, and ten thousand men at arms, horsemen and footmen: so burned he the Count’s land, and spoiled his country, and slew his men.  Now the Count Garin de Biaucaire was old and frail, and his good days were gone over.  No heir had he, neither son nor daughter, save one young man only; such an one as I shall tell you.  Aucassin was the name of the damoiseau: fair was he, goodly, and great, and featly fashioned of his body, and limbs.  His hair was yellow, in little curls, his eyes blue and laughing, his face beautiful and shapely, his nose high and well set, and so richly seen was he in all things good, that in him was none evil at all.  But so suddenly overtaken was he of Love, who is a great master, that he would not, of his will, be dubbed knight, nor take arms, nor follow tourneys, nor do whatsoever h. . . Read More

Community Reviews

This book tells the story of a French boy named Aucassin and a Saracen girl named Nicolette who fall in love despite their parents’ wishes and, of course, go to great lengths to make it happen anyway. “Aucassin et Nicolette” is the only example of a ‘chantefable’—or ‘sung story’—from the Middle Ages

This is a wonderful parody of a medieval romance. Everything is reversed, the heroine isn't a beautiful Christian held by Saracens, she's a Saracen held by Christians. And Aucassin isn't a valiant knight, he shirks from his knightly duties to find his love... In one passage, he explains why he would

Aucassin and Nicolette is an anonymous Old French chantefable (creation comprising prose and verse), probably from the 12th or 13th century; its only remaining source is a manuscript kept in the National Library of France, in Paris. The story fascinated authors such as Andrew Lang and Francis Willia

As a fan of Dorothy Dunnett’s Lymond Chronicles, I spent years thinking I was missing something because I hadn’t read Aucassin and Nicolette. Years. That was silly.

That said it’s a medieval cante fable and quite sweet. It is sentimental – it’s a love story after all – but not overly so. There’s a li

Tanka knjižica koju sam čak i ja uspjela da pročitam za samo jedan dan, ali sasvim sadržajna.

Stilom me podsjeća na priče koje mi je otac čitao u djetinjstvu za laku noć, prvenstveno na Grimove bajke, zbog čega budi u meni nostalgiju za vremenima u kojima se u mojoj „lektiri“ još uvijek mogao pronaći

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