Lais of Marie de France

Composed in French in twelfth-century England, these twelve brief verse narratives centre on the joys, sorrows, and complications of love affairs in a context that blends the courtly culture of tournaments and hunting and otherworldly elements such as self-steering boats, shape-shifting lovers, and talking animals.

Compuse in limba franceza in Anglia secolului al XII-lea, aceste douasprezece naratiuni scurte in versuri se concentreaza pe bucuriile, tristetile si complicatiile relatiilor amoroase intr-un context care imbina cultura curteneasca a turneelor si a vanatorii si elemente de alta lume, cum ar fi barcile autodirectionate, formele. indragostiti schimbatori si animale care vorbesc.