Written in octo-syllabic couplets some time between the mid-thirteenth and early fourteenth century, the poem describes how the Greek princess, Albine, leads her sisters in an attempt to murder their husbands. When the plot is revealed, the sisters are exiled and their rudderless vessel carries them to the shores of a distance land which Albine names after herself: Albion. This text contains the text of MS Cotton Cleopatra D.ix in the British Library and a facing page translation.