The ‘Matter of England’

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The ‘Matter of England’ Havelok the Dane The ‘Matter of England’

Manuscript and sources Dated c. 1280-1290. Earliest versions of the story in Geoffrei Gaimar’s L’Estoire des Engleis c. 1140 and Lai d’Haveloc. The poem appears in Bodleian MS Laud Misc 108, dated c. 1300-25; also contains King Horn and saints’ lives. A note in the manuscript describes the poem as a ‘vita’. http://medievalromance.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/ The_earliest_surviving_English_romances

How does the poet structure the story? What are the stages of Havelok’s development to maturity and the restoration of his kingly identity?

Halverson describes the poem as ‘a peasant fantasy of class ambition and resentment’? How is social class treated in the poem?

How does the poem construct and represent England?

The poem describes itself as a ‘gest’ (l. 2984) ‘A poem or song about heroic deeds, a chivalric romance; (b) a poem or song of any kind; (c) a prose chronicle or history, a prose romance or tale; English geste(s, gestes of Engelond, history of England; gestes of the apostles, the Acts of the Apostles; (d) anything spoken or written, a saying, a writing; (e)?an inscription, ?a picture.’ (Middle English Dictionary) How helpfully is the classification ‘romance’ applied to this poem?