e/Tournament of Tottenham

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has glosseng: The Tournament of Tottenham is a short humorous poem of 231 lines written in Middle English and is dated between 1400-40. There are two known manuscripts for the poem, one Harleian 5306 (H), 1456 in the British Library and the other Ff. II 38 (c), 1431 in the Cambridge University Library. The dialect has been identified as Northern English. The line is alliterative, either emulating or parodying older Germanic metrical styles. The author is unknown.
lexicalizationeng: Tournament of Tottenham
instance of(noun) a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines
poem, verse form

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