Sir Orfeo
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Sir Orfeo is a Middle English poem from the early 1300s that retells the classical story of Orpheus and Eurydice in a world of kings, knights and faerie. Orfeo rules his realm with his queen, Heurodis. One summer day she falls asleep beneath an orchard tree and wakes in distress, having been carried off by the king of the fairies.
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Orfeo cannot save her by force. He gives up his crown and his lands and goes out into the wild as a beggar, living rough far from his court. The poem follows his long and lonely exile, in which he holds on to the one thing that might still reach her.
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