I am looking to increase my library with more medieval literature - What are your suggestions on must-owns besides the ones I currently have:
Divina Commedia
Decamerone
The Norse Eddas
St Augustine's Confessions and City of God
Beowulf
Chanson de Roland
Nibelungenlied
Hit me with your best medieval lit!
Chretien de Troyes' Arthurian Romances
>>8247773
The Decameron
St. Augustine isn't medieval you dip.
>>8247773
>Chanson de Roland
>Nibelungenlied
>Not owning Mio Cid before the lamest epic ever written and the Hercules wannabe
mfw
>>8247773
Don't forget the celtic shit my dude.
Táin Bó Cuailnge
Agallamh na Seanórach
Leabhar Gabhála Éireann
Buile Suibhne
Tóraíocht Dhiarmada agus Gráinne
Are the most important for Irish/Scottish literature. There's tonnes more if you like these.
As for Welsh/Breton/Cornish
the Mabinogion
the book of Taliesin
Culhwych and Olwyn
Peredur (better known as Perceval)
Everything by Chretien de Troyes
For history and other "non-fiction" (a lot of it is completely fictional but they didn't know better back then) read
Geoffrey of Monmouth
Giraldus Cambrensis
The Annals of Ulsters
Annals of the Four Masters
Cogad Gáedel Re Gallaib
Adam of Usk
>>8248613
whats the best translation for the poem of the cid?
>>8247895
This. I actually don't know how the fuck he's so underappreciated, when every child knows stories by/based on his works.
>>8247773
Pearl!
A godlike poem full of meaning and depth
>no canterbury tales
>no >>8249309
>nothing middle english in general
lad.
also be sure to read them in the original middle english, or on a site that has an interactive glossary. also look up middle english phonology so you're actually pronouncing this stuff right.
Agenbite of Intwit you twit
>>8247773
Nedes more Bede
The Legend of St. Brendan
>>8250062
fuck me, sometimes i forget this wonder exists.
>>8249202
None.
Every book mentioned in Don Quijote.
The Vision of Piers Plowman
Asser's Life of King Alfred
If you're interested in vikings I'd recommend Njal's Saga.
>Chanson de Roland
It's such a drag seriously. Troyes reads a lot more fuidly.
