![]() ![]() The common population is often violent and cruel. The nobility is being portrayed as lazy and often stupid. Satire about a fox who kills and bullies, and gets away with his deeds. ![]() He freely adapted and developed the original source, doing so "so deftly and with so much freedom and originality that his adaptation is universally conceded to be the best specimen of the genre in any language." Content ![]() Willem was reliant for the story of Van den vos Reinaerde on the French epic poem Le Plaid, the first story of a larger collection of fox tales known as the Roman de Renard - written by Perrout de Saint Cloude in 1160. It is considered a major work of Middle Dutch literature and has been called "the pinnacle of Gothic literature in the Netherlands." Sources Van den vos Reinaerde ( English title: Of Reynaert the Fox) is the Middle Dutch version of the story of Reynard, as written by Willem die Madoc maecte. First lines of Van den vos Reynaerde in the 14th-century Dyckse manuscript ![]()
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