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    Bevis of Hampton (Old French: Beuve(s) or Bueve or Beavis de Hanton(n)e; Anglo-Norman: Boeve de Haumtone; Italian: Buovo d'Antona) or Sir Bevois was a...
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  • Look up Bevis in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Bevis (sometimes spelled Beavis or Bevys) is a given name of Old French origin, meaning someone coming...
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    Retrieved 11 March 2018. "The Travels of Sir Bevis of Hampton". Bevis of Hampton. 2015. Retrieved 7 March 2018. "Brutus of Troy". anthonyadolph.co.uk. 2015...
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  • The Bevis, also known as the Bevis of Hampton, was a merchant sailing ship that brought "Emigrants" from England to New England in 1638, this at a time...
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    Beves of Hamtoun, also known as Beves of Hampton, Bevis of Hampton or Sir Beues of Hamtoun, is an anonymous Middle English romance of 4620 lines, dating...
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    Bovo-Bukh (category Bevis of Hampton)
    from the Anglo-Norman romance of Bevis of Hampton, by way of an Italian poem that had modified the name Bevis of Hampton to Buovo d'Antona and had, itself...
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    Colbrand (giant) (category Bevis of Hampton)
    defeated by Guy of Warwick, a legendary English hero of Romance popular in England and France from the 13th to 17th centuries. The story of Sir Guy is considered...
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  • virgin. The Medieval romances Floris and Blancheflur (c. 1250) and Bevis of Hampton (c. 1300) both feature virgin heroines who must prove their purity...
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  • frustration of King Charles. The royalist High Sheriff, Sir John Oglander, kept his eye on happenings and noticing Richard's ship, the Bevis of Hampton, at anchor...
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    mention a pair of paintings featuring Bevis of Hampton and Ascapart on wooden panels. These appear to have been placed on the northern side of the building...
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    motifs emerge in the romance of Bevis of Hampton. Saxo Grammaticus must also have been inspired by the classical story of Brutus (see below). There was...
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    Ascapart (category Bevis of Hampton)
    conquered by Bevis of Hampton, though so huge as to carry Bevis, his wife, and horse under his arm. He was 30 feet tall but the smallest of his land, and...
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  • set before the Norman conquest of England,: Athelston Bevis of Hampton Guy of Warwick Horn Childe or King Horn The Man of Law's Tale Other romances: Fouke...
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    Robin Hood (redirect from Robin Of Locksley)
    other folk heroes such as Guy of Warwick, Bevis of Hampton, and Sir Lybeaus. However, the earliest surviving copies of the narrative ballads that tell...
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    University of Rochester, Middle English Text Series – Texts Online: from Four Romances of England: King Horn, Havelok the Dane, Bevis of Hampton, Athelston...
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    William Thoms (category Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London)
    1844, (Caxton in 1481) Gammer Gurton's Famous Histories of Sir Guy of Warwick, Sir Bevis of Hampton, Tom Hickathrift, Friar Bacon, Robin Hood, and the King...
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    origins. Bevis of Hampton was an Anglo-Norman romance of the 13th century, which probably drew on earlier themes. The structure of The Seven Sages of Rome...
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  • Mirabel und Elie de Saint Gille: Zwei Altfranzösische Heldengedichte. Bevis of Hampton, fol. 1v. Elie de Saint-Gilles, fol. 84r. Elie de Saint-Gilles, fol...
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  • Bevers saga (redirect from Bevis saga)
    Bevers saga or Bevis saga is an Old Norse chivalric saga, translated from a now lost version of the Anglo-Norman poem Boeve de Haumtone. Kalinke summarises...
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    Taymouth Hours (category Illuminated books of hours)
    Picture-narratives of the stories of Bevis of Hampton (ff. 8v–12) and Guy of Warwick (ff. 12v–17) appear at the beginning of the text, while below the Matins of the...
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  • Dantona, genus of moths Buovo d'Antona, Italian translation of Bevis of Hampton Buovo d'Antona (Traetta), Italian opera about the Bevis of Hampton All pages...
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  • 85 (1930), pp. 315–341. Bevis of Hampton. Bevis of Hampton (Beuve de Hanstone) was a legendary English hero and the subject of Anglo-Norman and other medieval...
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    English folklore consists of the myths and legends of England, including the English region's mythical creatures, traditional recipes, urban legends,...
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  • Legolas's horse in The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R Tolkien Arondel, Bevis's horse in the Middle English romance Bevis of Hampton Arroch, Sindarin for 'noble...
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    prose version, copied in the 15th century, The Irish Lives of Guy of Warwick and Bevis of Hampton is in Trinity College Library, Dublin (Ms H.2.7), and is...
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    Guy of Warwick, Bevis of Hampton, Octavian and Sir Isumbras. Unlike the other three stories, the Middle English Sir Isumbras is not a translation of an...
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  • century Elia Levita published his Bovo-Bukh, a Yiddish version of Sir Bevis of Hampton. Some characters in Levita's work were turned by the author's into...
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    the form of tournaments, rather than races. King John established a stud at Eltham, Kent and the Middle English romance Sir Bevis of Hampton has couplets...
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  • Murgleys (category Matter of France)
    (the historical Baldwin I of Jerusalem) Murglaie - sword of Boeve de Haumtone; better known as Morglay of Bevis of Hampton. Note that "Morglay" has been...
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    romances of chivalry, adapted for children. Includes stories about Don Quixote, Charlemagne, Bevis of Hampton and Guy of Warwick. "How William of Palermo...
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