About Robert Biket
Lived 1101 – 1300. Robert Biket was an English writer.
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. The lai, preserved in a single late-thirteenth-century manuscript in the Bodleian Library, tells the story of a drinking-horn which cannot be used by cuckolded husbands without spilling the contents.
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Who was Robert Biket?
Anglo-Norman writer
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Robert Biket was born in 1101.
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Robert Biket died in 1300.
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Robert Biket was a writer.
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Robert Biket was English.
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