Historia Meriadoci and De Ortu Waluuanii: Two Arthurian Romances of the XIIIth Century, in Latin Prose

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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1913 - 96 ページ
 

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xxix ページ - Meriadoci with regard to the manner in which the children are saved from execution. The compassion of the men appointed to slay them would have alone sufficed and it seems unjust that this compassion should have been rewarded with death, as we find it in the romance. We shall, perhaps, have to take our choice between two different modes of rescue. Under the alternative hypothesis we should have to suppose that the men were only prevented from carrying out their lord's commands by the elaborate stratagem...
4 ページ - Quatuor igitur ingentes focos e quatuor partibus ipsius saltus accendit, accensisque plurimas quas secum attulerat carnes passim iniecit ilicemque uicinam cum coniuge et cane ascendens delituit. Fumo autem ignium per nemoris latitudinem diffuse, ubi lupi in confinio degentes — quorum inibi ingens habebatur copia — odorem perceperunt carnium, illo contendere et confluere ilico...
lxii ページ - ... age approaches, he turns over the government of his kingdom to his brother Griffith and devotes himself to hunting and amusement. Wicked men persuade Griffith to slay his brother and seize the throne. Despite the warning of a dream, Caradoc goes hunting and is slain by hired assassins in the forest. "The queen dies of grief, and, to turn suspicion from himself, Griffith has the assassins put to death. Before their execution, however, they revealed Griffith's guilt. Caradoc's friends among the...
lxii ページ - The first part of the Meriadoc story, with which a comparison will be made, is summarized by JD Bruce as follows: — "In the time of Uther Pendragon, Caradoc ruled over Wales. He had a son and a daughter by his wife, a princess of Ireland, which country he had conquered. As old age approaches, he turns over the government of his kingdom to his brother Griffith and devotes himself to hunting and amusement. Wicked men persuade Griffith to slay his brother and seize the throne. Despite the warning...
lxii ページ - Morwen, the royal huntsman and his wife. Griffith determines to kill the children, but, touched in a measure by their appeal, does not have them executed on the spot. He has them taken to the forest of Arglud, where they are to be hanged. The executioners, however, feel compassion and tie them by a slender rope, easily broken, so that they may fall to the ground unharmed. Hearing of the children's disappearance, Ivor sets out for the forest, accompanied by his wife and his dog, Dolfin. To frighten...
25 ページ - Meriadocus, eum hoc reputans ludendo fecisse, iterum eum ut quesita sibi inti[Co1 2Jmaret blande rogauit. Ille uero iterato, more canis estuantis, linguam ab ore usque ad mentum deorsum exerens, subiuncto cachinno, Meriadocum deridebat. Meriadocus autem, nec tunc quidem rem ut erat intelligens et derisionem adhuc lusum existimans, "Uir" ait "eggregie, quid est quod agas?
49 ページ - Vill tandem die Gallicanas allabuntur ad horas, nactique continentem duobus miliariis a civitate Narbonensi appulsi sunt. Quo ubi applicuerunt sale reumateque maris tabentes, ad urbem se spaciatum. lintre in portu relicto, omnes properant, unum tantummodo puerum qui suas res lactentemque in cunis iacentem tueretur deserentes, remocius quippe ab urbe sub prerupta rupe appulerant nullumque Interim ratem aditurum credebant. Sed, illis egressis, forte quidam piscator e vicino pago, Viamundus vocabulo,...
24 ページ - Meriadoce, ad nos uenistis; multum enim temporis est, ex quo te desiderabam uidere, tuas audiens probitates." Cui ille: "Stupendum est non modice quod uideo et audio, uel quomodo mei faciem aut nomen cognoueris uel quis in hoc loco tantas structuras tam repente condiderit, cum necdum mensis transiit quod hic nec unus lapis edificii fuerit.
lxiii ページ - ... to the palace. Ivor comes with a dead stag to Arthur's court and offers it to Kay. Meriadoc recognizes his foster-father and springs clear over the table to greet him. Kay receives Ivor among his attendants. Kay visits Urien and takes Ivor and Meriadoc with him. Mutual recognitions and rejoicings. "Arthur and Urien determine to take vengeance on Griffith, who fortifies himself at Mount Snowdon. After a long siege he succumbs to famine, surrenders and is executed. Meriadoc succeeds him, but resolves...
55 ページ - Sea. In the narrative of his campaign we find the following passages : — " Ac Miles cum tunica armature, dum suos cedere uideret postibus, stricto gladio in eorum ducem irruens humo prostrauit, apprehensoque naso cassidis eum ad socios traxit ac uita cum armis destituit.

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