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Greysteil ("Graysteel") was a medieval poem popular in 16th century Scotland, set to music and performed for James IV of Scotland and James V of Scotland. The poem was also called ''Syr Egeir and Syr Gryme'', Eger and Grime, the names of the two knights who fight Greysteil and whose contrasted virtues are the poem's real subject. The name of the protagonist, a strong and agile knight, opulent, tainted with the black-arts, and vanquished by a magic sword provided by a powerful woman, was adopted as a nickname for two 16th-century courtiers, Archibald Douglas of Kilspindie who was said to have been dominated by his wife Isobel Hoppar,〔Reid, David, ed., ''David Hume of Godscroft's History of the House of Angus'', vol. 1, STS (2005), 101-2.〕 and William Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie,〔Gowrie was called 'Greysteil' posthumously in a letter of Robert Logan of Restalrig, 31 July 1600: Hales (1867), 7: ''Acts of the Parliaments of Scotland'', vol. 4 (1816), 422.〕 and Alexander Montgomery, 6th Earl of Eglinton in the 17th-century, and was a given name of the 20th-century 2nd earl of Gowrie. ==Text== Though the poem was popular in 16th century Scotland, the original ''Eger and Grime'' is thought to have been written in the North of England in the mid-15th century, although a Scottish origin is argued for one of its two versions.〔Ousby, Ian, ''The Cambridge Guide to Literature'', CUP (1993), 291: Evans (2001)〕 The text survives only in these three late versions: *P - Text in Bishop Percy's Percy Folio manuscript (ca. 1650) runs 1474 lines.〔Hales & Furnivall's edition〕〔French & Hale's anthology ', pp.671-717 with preface.〕 *L - David Laing's reprint in 1826 of an earlier chapbook〔 (James Nicol, printer, issued in Aberdeen in 1711〔Laing, xi-xii〕) runs 2860 lines. *H - Unique copy owned by the Huntington Library of a 1687 blackletter ''Eger'', similar to L.〔Thus collated together as the "Laing-Huntington version" in Caldwell's parallel text edition〕 The Percy copy P is considered the more faithful to the original work, the Laing-Huntington version being "corrupted and expanded."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Greysteil」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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