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King Horn and Suddene

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

Walter Oliver
Walter Oliver*
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My first introduction to the mediæval story of King Horn came through reading in the Year Book 1914–1924, published by the Viking Club of London, a review of Dr. Henry Goddard Leach's Angevin Britain and Scandinavia. The reviewer in discussing the story of Horn referred to the difficulty of fixing the location of “Suddene” where the action of the story had its beginning and end, and suggested that it may have been situated in South Wales. My first real acquaintance with the Horn story, however, as well as the problems with which it is involved, came through reading the scholarly essay, “The Story of Horn and Rimenhild,” by Professor William Henry Schofield.

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PMLA , Volume 46 , Issue 1 , March 1931, pp. 102 - 114
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1931

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References

page 102 note 1 PMLA, XVIII (1903) 1–83.

page 102 note 2 King Horn etc., Early Eng. Text Soc., 1901, p. xviii–xix.

page 102 note 2 Studien zur Hornsage (Kieler Studien, iv, 1902) p. 131.

page 102 note 4 H. L. D. Ward, Cat. of Rom. in Dept. of MSS. in the Brit. Mus., I, 465.

page 102 note 5 Schofield likewise decides in favor of Gudmond (HR) as the name assumed by Horn rather than Cutberd (K. H.). But on this point also see Ward (op. cit. p. 466).

page 102 note 6 Origines Parochiales Scotiae. The Antiquities, Ecclesiastical and Territorial of the Parishes of Scotland, ed. Cosmo Innes. (Bannatyne Club) Vol. I. 1850, Vol. II, Part 1, 1854, Part 2, 1855.

page 102 note 7 Camb. MS. regularly “Westernesse”; Laud and Harley “Westnesse.”

page 102 note 8 Anecdotes of Olave the Black, King of Man, and The Hebridian Princes of the Somerled Family, By the Rev. James Johnstone, 1780, p. 27.

page 102 note 9 Ward, Cat. of Rom., I, 449–450.

page 102 note 10 Op. cit., p. 35.

page 102 note 11 Op. oit pp. 453–4.