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 A Breton lai, also known as a narrative lay or simply a lay, is a form of medieval French and English romance literature. Lais are short (typically 600–1000 lines), rhymed tales of love and chivalry, often involving supernatural and fairy-wor ...

. The lai, preserved in a single late-thirteenth-century manuscript in the

Bodleian library The Bodleian Library () is the main research library of the University of Oxford, and is one of the oldest libraries in Europe. It derives its name from its founder, Sir Thomas Bodley. With over 13 million printed items, it is the second- ...

,MS Digby 86, ff. 105r-109v. tells the story of a drinking-horn which cannot be used by cuckolded husbands without spilling the contents.

References

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

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