Bevis of Hampton

Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)

2026 Editor's Note: This page uses language about other peoples, religions, or nationalities that was commonplace when the book was published and is offensive by today's standards. The text has been left exactly as it was printed, rather than cut or softened, so that the historical record — including how ordinary such language once was — is preserved. (Ed: ET 2026-07-22) the hero of a popular English medieval romance. The son of Sir Guy, Earl of Hamtoun, who was treacherously murdered by Divoun, Emperor of Almayne, he was given by his false mother to some heathen merchants to be sold for a slave among the Paynim. By them he was carried to Ermony, where he soon became dear to King Ermyn, and dearer still to his only daughter Josian. His chief exploits were the overthrow of Brademond of Damascus, of a monstrous boar, of the giant Ascapard, whom he spared to become 1-Vol. II-Cyc his squire, and of a dreadful dragon near sword Morglay he Cologne. His famous Arundel was won in battle; his horse more romantic the gift of Josian. Still his carrying episodes in his story are in a sealed letter his own death-warrant escape from to the vassal Brademond, his seven years' his noisome dungeon after his wife imprisonment and recovery of , love, though who had preserved his King Ynor of nominally the wife of returned to Eng- Mombraunt. He next death, then land to avenge his father's Ynor in sailed for Ermony and defeated last great fight a desperate battle. His , when he was in the streets of London forced slaughtered 60,000 citizens, and terms. The King Edgar to grant him romance was edited by Dr. E. Kölbing Text Society, in for the Early English 1885.