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▪ I. lai1|leɪ|
[OFr. (see lay n.4).]
a. One of a number of short narrative poems written either in French or in English in England between the twelfth and the fifteenth centuries, of a Celtic type and concerned with love, magic, and music. Often called Breton lais.
b. A medieval French lyric associated with the trouvères of Northern France.
1774T. Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry I. Diss. i. sig. a 2 At the conclusion of most of the tales it is said that these Lais were made by the poets of Bretaigne. 1824R. Price in T. Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry II. 430 But Marie's was not the only Collection of British Lais, in French. 1838E. Guest Hist. Eng. Rhythms II. 103 The ‘short measures’ of Skelton..may perhaps be looked upon as the direct descendants of the Anglo-Saxon rhythms, though it must be confessed they much resemble, in their flow, the lais and virelais of the fifteenth century. 1855H. H. Milman Hist. Latin Christianity VI. vii. 547 Slighter pieces which may call to mind the Lais and Serventes of the South. 1865T. Taylor tr. Hersart de la Villemarqué's Ballads & Songs of Brittany 125 A lai by a northern trouvère on the same subject was discovered by M. de Fréminville, in the Bibliothèque du Roi. 1883H. M. Kennedy tr. B. ten Brink's Hist. Eng. Lit. I. ii. 179 The Breton lais retain most fully their native fragrance. They are usually romantic even when the topic is comic... The poem is often pervaded by a tone of elegiac longing. 1905E. Rickert in Mod. Philol. II. 376 The fresh literary impulse that came with the Normans found little to do with the old Saxon heroes. A few tales were transformed into the lai or chanson de geste or roman d'aventure—Havelock, Horn, Guy of Warwick, Bevis of Hampton. 1906[see conte b]. 1907St. J. Lucas in Oxf. Bk. French Verse p. vii, Various other kinds of lyric poetry begin to appear at the end of the twelfth century, motets,..rondeaux, lais, ballettes and virelais. 1923J. Vising Anglo-Norman Lang. & Lit. 47 Breton lais in England are mentioned in Roman de Renard. 1925A. Bell Le Lai d'Haveloc 26 There is, however, not only a general connection with the ‘lais’ but also a special one with those of Marie. 1929[see conte b]. 1932Oxf. Hist. Music (ed. 2) II. ii. v. 285 The initial stanzas of two trouvères lais are written on the melody of ‘Ave gloriosa virginum regina’. Ibid. 286 On the other side the lai is related to the chanson de geste and to the other popular songs of the time, to which many of the anonymous lais show some resemblance. 1940Grove's Dict. Mus. (ed. 4) III. 269/1 The lais (long lyrical poems written in twelve pairs of stanzas, each pair having a different metrical form and a different melody from the rest, except the last pair, which repeats metre and melody of the first) are all set to one musical part only. 1954[see conte b]. 1965R. S. Loomis in Bessinger & Creed Medieval & Ling. Stud. 237 We possess three Breton lais: Doon, Desiré, and Gurun..which evince some knowledge of Scottish geography.
▪ II. lai
obs. f. lay n. and v., and of lay, pa. tense lie. |
