Reynard the Fox (Legendary character)

URI(s)
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87000123
- info:lc/authorities/sh87000123
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh87000123#concept
Instance Of
Scheme Membership(s)
- Library of Congress Subject Headings
Collection Membership(s)
- LCSH Collection - Authorized Headings
- LCSH Collection - General Collection
Variants
- Reinaert de Vos (Legendary character)
- Reinke de Vos (Legendary character)
- Renart (Legendary character)
Broader Terms
- Legends--Europe
Sources
- found: Work cat.: Nivardus. Ysengrimus, 1987.
- found: Funk and Wagnalls Standard Dict. of Folklore (Reynard. "Trickster hero of the great medieval beast epic Roman de Renart ... The epic of Reynard does not exist as one work. Developing throughout the Middle Ages from the beast fables of the classical period, the poems of beasts who acted and thought like human beings grew into the Latin Isengrimus of the 12th century written by a Fleming, and the various branches of the Roman de Renart (c. 1175-c. 1205). The branches, telling the story of the fox, were separate compositions making use of fable material from the Isopets, imitations of Aesop's fables, and of popular folktale material ...")
Change Notes
- 1987-01-09: new
- 2012-07-16: revised

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