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Links to Selected Online Text and Translations of Alliterative Poems from Middle English and Scots

While you are using this page, you may find the following references helpful:
  • Middle English Dictionary
  • Eric Weiskott's Companion Website for Middle English Alliterative Poetry
The links provided below connect to information drawn from the following sources: Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse, Middle English Text Series, Middle English stories and legends translated and retold in modern English, Harvard's Geoffrey Chaucer Website, Database of Middle English Romance, From Stage to Page: Medieval and Renaissance Dramas, Medieval English Drama: Modernized Performance Texts, In Parentheses, Poculi Ludique Societas, Samuel Joseph Ettinger (dot net), and Martha Carlin.
Layamon's Brut
Middle English TextPartial Translation
William Langland
The Vision of Piers Plowman
Middle English TextAlliterative Translation Performance Published Translations
Alliterative Morte Arthur
Middle English TextProse Translation Published Translations
The Pearl Poet
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Pearl Patience Purity
Published Translations
William Dunbar
The Treatise of the Two Married Women and the Widow
Original Text

St. Erkenwald

Middle English Text
Video Performance
Chester Mystery Plays
Middle English TextsAlliterative Translations
The Coventry, or N-Town Plays
Middle English TextsAlliterative Translations
York Mystery Plays
Middle English TextsAlliterative Translations Performance of "The Nativity" Performance of "The Passion" Performance of "Doomsday"
The Avowing of Arthur
Middle English TextPlot Summary
The Awyntyrs off Arthur
Middle English TextAlliterative Translation
The Castle of Perseverance
Middle English TextAlliterative Translation
Jack Upland
Middle English Text
Friar Daw's Reply
Middle English Text
Jack Upland's Rejoinder
Middle English Text
Middle English Text
The Four Leaves of the Truelove
Middle English Text
Poems of Lawrence Minot
Middle English Texts
Mum and the Sothesegger
Middle English Text
The Parliament of the Three Ages
Middle English Text
Piers the Plowman's Crede
Middle English TextPartial Translation
The Pistill of Swete Susan
Middle English Text
Richard the Redeless
Middle English Text
Sir Gawain and the Carl of Carlisle
Middle English TextProse Translation

The Cheuelere Assigne

Middle English Text

The Destruction of Troy

Middle English Text
The Siege of Jerusalem
Middle English TextPlot Summary
The Tournament of Tottenham
Middle English TextFree Verse Translation

The Romance of William and the Werewolf

Middle English Text Translation by Michael Smith
The Knightly Tale of Gologras and Gawain
Middle Scots Text
The Tale of Charlemagne and Ralph the Collier
Middle Scots Text Translation by Michael Smith
Robert Henrison
Sum Practysis of Medecyne
Middle Scots Text
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