"Chevrefoil" is a Breton lai by the medieval poet Marie de France. The eleventh poem in the collection is called The Lais of Marie de France and its subject is an episode from the romance of Tristan and Iseult. The title means "honeysuckle," a symbol of love in the poem. "Chevrefoil" consists of 118 lines and survives in two manuscripts, Harley 978 or MS H, which contains all the Lais, and in Bibliothèque Nationale, nouv. acq. fr. 1104, or MS S.[1]
"Chevrefoil" is a Breton lai by the medieval poet Marie de France. The eleventh poem in the collection is called The Lais of Marie de France and its subject...
times over the years (including the Middle English Sir Launfal) and "Chevrefoil" ("The Honeysuckle"), a short composition about Tristan and Iseult, mention...
kings; his ties to the story are personal. Marie de France's Breton lai Chevrefoil (sometimes known as The Lay of the Honeysuckle) tells part of the Tristan...
of Britain, Marie de France presented a Tristan episode in her lais, "Chevrefoil". The title refers to the symbiosis of the honeysuckle and hazelnut tree...
d'Oxford, c. 1175 – c. 1200 The Lais of Marie de France c. 1170s Lanval Chevrefoil (an episode of the Tristan and Iseult story) The poems of Chrétien de...
audience would easily remember them. Her lais range in length from 118 (Chevrefoil) to 1,184 lines (Eliduc), frequently describe courtly love entangled in...
reference to the Round Table and the isle of Avalon (although the lai Chevrefoil too can be classed as Arthurian material). It was composed after Geoffrey...
but this is unsupported. Tristan has similarities to the Tristan story Chevrefoil by Marie de France, but either author could have borrowed from the other...
with additional resemblances to Thomas's Tristan; and Marie de France's "Chevrefoil", in which Tristan uses a hazel branch to signal a secret rendezvous with...
If this is true, "Eliduc"'s may be compared with the previous poem, "Chevrefoil", a short lai about the adulterous love of Tristan and Iseult that eventually...
"Lecheor" is not the only lai to feature women writing. "Chaitivel" and "Chevrefoil" by Marie de France also include instances of women composing lais. The...
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