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The adventures of Reynard, the great folkloric trickster. The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. So begins How Reynard the Fox Fooled the Raven, the first of these eighteen enchanting stories. Varty, Reynard the Fox (1967) The History of Reynard the Fox, tr. Even though all the characters in the fables were said to be corrupted and amoral, Reynard had committed more horrible crimes than anyone else.

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Arnold's translation (1860) of Goethe's Reinecke Fuchs, a paraphrase of an older High German version, and William Rose's Epic of the Beast (1924). Reynard, the fox, was the main protagonist of a series of French, Dutch, English and German fables. Caxton translated from a Flemish version his Historie of Reynart the Foxe (1481).

The French, who contributed most to the original story, produced Le Roman de Renart (c.1175вЂ“1250).

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Professional minstrels and poets soon found these tales good entertainment and made them popular with the upper and middle classes. Expanded with new interpretations, innovative language and characterisation, this edition is an imaginative re-telling of the Reynard story and as relevant. An episode at once outstanding and typical is the funeral of Reynard, with the pious laments of his late enemies and his devastating resurrection from the grave. Most of the stories reflect in biting satire the peasant's criticism and contempt for the upper classes and the clergy. Panther, who complains of Reynard to the king. He defends Reynard before the court, and even warns the fox of a plot against him. The summons of Reynard by King Noble (the Lion) to answer accusations by Isengrim the Wolf and other animals forms the nucleus and starting point of the loosely connected tales. Later Reynard convinces the king that Bruin is plotting to replace him as ruler. The type probably originated in a German-speaking section of what is now Alsace-Lorraine, whence it passed into France, the Low Countries, and Germany. They are found chiefly in Latin, French, Low German, Dutch, High German, and English. Reynard the Fox rД•ВґnЙ™rd, rДЃВґnГ¤rd, the supreme trickster and celebrated hero of the medieval beast epics, works predominantly in verse which became increasingly popular after c.1150.

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