The Three Days' Tournament. Weston Jessie Laidlay

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СКАЧАТЬ modification and dislocation. In my recent studies on the Lancelot legend17 I have pointed out that in the process of evolution it certainly passed through a stage in which it was closely connected with, and affected by, the Perceval story. Gradually the popularity of the hero of the younger tale obscured that of the elder; and in the Lancelot, as we now have it, the traces of Perceval influence have almost disappeared from the majority of the printed versions, though interesting survivals are still to be found in certain manuscripts and in the Dutch translation. Now one of the best known adventures attributed to Perceval is that in which the sight of blood-drops on new-fallen snow—caused by a bird having been wounded, or slain, by a hawk—recalls to his mind the lady of his love, and plunges him into a trance; in which he is rudely attacked by Kay, who would bring him by force to court. He retaliates by unhorsing the seneschal with such force that he breaks, in one version both arms, in others, an arm and a leg.18 It should also be noted that in the Peredur a raven has alighted on the slain bird, and we have the three colours, black, red, and white, recalling the lady’s raven hair, white skin, and crimson lips and cheeks.19

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      Professor Foerster’s edition of the poems of Chrétien de Troyes are probably the most satisfactory critical texts we at present possess, but the value of these is greatly impaired by the controversial use made of the prefaces attached to them.

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      These and other details will be found in Mr. Ward’s article on ‘Ipomedon,’

1

Professor Foerster’s edition of the poems of Chrétien de Troyes are probably the most satisfactory critical texts we at present possess, but the value of these is greatly impaired by the controversial use made of the prefaces attached to them.

2

These and other details will be found in Mr. Ward’s article on ‘Ipomedon,’ Catalogue of Romances, vol. i.

3

Ipomedon in drei englischen Bearbeitungen: Breslau 1889.

4

Supra, p. xxix.

5

The fact that, as we have pointed out, he sometimes agrees with one, sometimes with the other version, seems to indicate that he knew the common original of both.

6

Ipomedon, A. l. 5500.

7

Lanzelet, Von Zatzikhoven, ll. 2911-15.

8

Dutch Lancelot, vol. i. ll. 42,819 et seq.

9

Ipomedon, p. xxviii.

10

For the various epilogues and ascriptions of authorship, cf. Die Sage vom Gral, Birch-Hirschfeld, chap. vii.

11

Cf. Birch-Hirschfeld, supra.

12

Vide De Nugis Curialium, ed. Wright, p. viii.

13

Cf. supra, p. 5.

14

Cf. P. Paris, Romans de la Table Ronde, vol. iii.

15

Cf. D. L., vol. i. ll. 19,595 et seq.; Legend of Sir Lancelot, p. 235.

16

Cf. supra, p. 5.

17

The Legend of Sir Lancelot du Lac, Grimm Library, vol. xii.

18

Cf. the reference to this adventure in Morien, quoted supra, p. 5.

19

For these three colours in this connection, cf. my translation of Parzival, vol. i. p. 317.