Sir_Tristrem Knowpia

Sir Tristrem is a 13th-century Middle English romance of 3,344 lines, preserved in the Auchinleck manuscript in the National Library of Scotland.^[1] Based on the Tristan of Thomas of Britain, it is the only surviving verse version of the Tristan legend in Middle English.^[2]

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Lacy, Norris J., ed. (1986). "Sir Tristrem". The Arthurian Encyclopedia. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press. pp. 515–6. ISBN 0-85115-253-8.
Ackerman, Robert W. (1959). "English Rimed and Prose Romances". In Loomis, Roger Sherman (ed.). Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages, A Collaborative History. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 514–6. ISBN 0-19-811588-1.

Scott, Sir Walter, ed. (1809). Sir Tristem: A Metrical Romance of the Thirteenth Century (4 ed.). Edinburgh: Archibald Constable.
McNeill, George P., ed. (1886). Sir Tristrem. Scottish Text Society 8. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons.

Transcription and manuscript facsimile (National Library of Scotland)
Text with glossary and notes (Robbins Library Digital Projects)
Sir Tristrem translated and retold in modern English prose, the story from Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland MS Advocates 19.2.1 (the Auchinleck MS) (translated and retold from University of Rochester, Middle English Text Series – Texts Online: Middle English from Alan Lupack (Ed), 1994, Lancelot of the Laik and Sir Tristrem, Medieval Institute Publications for TEAMS).