ABSTRACT
Eger and Grime is a romance about missing parts that is itself a missing part. That some form of the story it tells was known in the later Middle Ages is attested by a cluster of allusions, all Scottish, from the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The bond between Eger and Grime is clearly, in the sense made current by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, 'homosocial'. Kosofsky Sedgwick borrows the term from history and the social sciences, where it 'describes social bonds between persons of the same sex' and is 'obviously meant to be distinguished from "homosexual"'. Eger is compelled to bring its homosocial plot of male deception to the fore by its unusual handling of the device of the double. To modern readers, the Eger known in the late Middle Ages has become archaic in ways that Lindsay could not have anticipated: it is a lost original, memorialized by some belated witnesses.
