Yonec
Sign in to savethumb|An image of the Yonec text"Yonec" is one of the Lais of Marie de France, written in the twelfth century by the French poet known only as Marie de France. Yonec is a Breton lai, a type of narrative poem. The poem is written in the Anglo-Norman dialect of Old French in rhyming couplets of eight syllables each. This lai tells the story of a woman who seeks to escape a loveless marriage, and of the child born from the love that she found elsewhere.
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It is catalogued under topics including French poems and Lais of Marie de France.
Its subject is documented across 3 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- literary work
- Part of
- Lais of Marie de France
- Author
- Marie de France
- Genre
- court literature
- Image
- Yonec manuscript.jpg
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- inception
- 1200-00-00
- language of work or name
- Old French
- publication date
- 1200-00-00
- form of creative work
- poem
- used metre
- octosyllable
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thumb|An image of the Yonec text"Yonec" is one of the Lais of Marie de France, written in the twelfth century by the French poet known only as Marie de France. Yonec is a Breton lai, a type of narrative poem. The poem is written in the Anglo-Norman dialect of Old French in rhyming couplets of eight syllables each. This lai tells the story of a woman who seeks to escape a loveless marriage, and of the child born from the love that she found elsewhere.
==Plot summary==
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