Bevis of Hampton

Bevis of Hampton (Old French: Beuve(s) or Bueve or Beavis de Hanton(n)e; Anglo-Norman: Boeve de Haumtone; Italian: Buovo d'Antona) or Sir Bevois was a legendary English hero and the subject of Anglo-Norman, Dutch, French, English, Venetian, and other medieval metrical chivalric romances that bear his name. The tale also exists in medieval prose, with translations to Romanian, Russian, Dutch, Irish, Welsh, Old Norse and Yiddish.

"Buovo d'Antona" redirects here. For the 1758 opera based on this legend, see Buovo d'Antona (Traetta).
For the Middle English romance, see Beves of Hamtoun (poem). For the 1638 sailing ship, see Bevis (ship).

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