"Tolkien refashioned the old medieval epics into what we now call fantasy literature," Ms. Chance said.

Unlike other European medieval epics, the tone is realist.

These high medieval heroic epics are written in rhymed strophes, not the alliterative verse of Germanic prehistory.

With Muhammad Abdul Hai, he also edited and published four medieval Bengali epics.

Neil was working on making a song out of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the medieval epic from King Arthur's time.

But, this book approaches the old songs medieval epic which characters sometimes tend to be characters of reality.

Gudrun, also known as Kudrun, is the heroine of a German medieval epic of the same name.

Sevruguin himself spoke five languages and could recite at length in Farsi from Persia's medieval epics.

Dante wears a trench coat, a fedora, sunglasses, and a pipe, looking more like a protagonist out of a Raymond Chandler novel than a medieval epic.

It is described as a 'medieval epic' which lasts more than five minutes.