Sir Torrent of Portingale

Sir Torrent of Portingale is a romance written to entertain fifteenth-centuryaudiences with action-packed tales of love and adventure. It is a story about thelovers Torrent, a young knight from Portugal, and Desonell, the feisty andresourceful daughter of a tyrannical king. Adventures include fights with dragons,giants, and savage beasts; perilous sea journeys; magic horses and swords;sieges and wars in the Holy Land. This new edition collates the survivingmanuscript and print fragments with commentary and notes.