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See edition ed. by J. Hall (1901); W. H. French, Essays on King Horn (1940).
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Romance of Horn is an Anglo-Norman literature romans d'aventure ("adventure story") tale written around 1170 by an anonymous author named "Thomas".
The hero, named Horn, is the son of the king AƤlof of Suddene (probably somewhere near
Devon). Horn is orphaned after the Saracens kill his parents. He and twelve companions then set
sail in a boat only to end up on the shores of Brittany, where he grows to manhood and falls in
love with the king's daughter Rymenhild. There he defends the kingdom from invading
The story became the base for one of the earliest Middle English romances King Horn, written around 1225.
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