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Robert Biket

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Robert Biket (fl. c. 1175) was the author of Lai du cor ('The Lai of the Horn'), a late-12th-century Anglo-Norman Breton lai. The lai, preserved in a single late-thirteenth-century manuscript in the Bodleian library,[1] tells the story of a drinking-horn which cannot be used by cuckolded husbands without spilling the contents.

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  1. ^ MS Digby 86, ff. 105r-109v. Glyn Sheridan Burgess (1995). The Old French Narrative Lay: An Analytical Bibliography. DS Brewer. pp. 39–43. ISBN 978-0-85991-478-9.

2. Fein, Susanna, ed. Interpreting MS Digby 86: A Trilingual Book from Thirteenth-Century Worcestershire. Woodbridge: York Medieval Press/Boydell Press, 2019. ISBN 978-1-903153-90-1.

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