Li romans de Durmart le Galois (also spelled Gallois, more briefly roman de Durmart) is an Old French romance, dated to the first half of the 13th century (probably 1220s or 1230s). It was first edited by Edmund Stengel in 1873.
The text consists of about 16,000 verses of eight syllables. The roman concerns the adventures of Durmart, son of the king of Gaul and of Andelise, daughter of the king of Denmark, who was the most accomplished knight of his time.
References
- Durmart le Galois, roman arthurien du treizième siècle, éd. Joseph Gildea, Villanova, Villanova Press, 1965-1966, 2 t
- Achille Jubinal, Rapport à M. le Ministre de l'Instruction publique, suivi de quelques pièces inédites tirées des manuscrits de la Bibliothéque de Berne (1838) 66-68.
- Edmund Stengel (ed.), Li romans de Durmart le Galois, Litterarischer Verein in Stuttgart, 1873.
- Rudolf Oehring, Untersuchungen über "Durmart le Galois": (insbesondere sein Verhältnis zum Yderroman) (1929).