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The hero, named Horn, is the son of the king Aälof of Suddene (probably somewhere near Devon ). Horn becomes orphaned when he is set adrift in a boat from the shores of southern England and reaches Brittany , where he grows to manhood and falls in love with the king's daughter Rigmel. There he defends the kingdom from invading Saracens , but the king banishes him to Ireland . In Ireland he falls in love once more with the king's daughter, but then finally returns to Brittany and, after a series of adventures, marries Rigmel, and eventually assumes the throne there. The story became the base for one of the earliest Middle English romances ''King Horn'', written around 1225. |
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