Merlin and the Grail by Robert de Boron

Author:Robert de Boron [Robert de Boron]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781782047292
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Group Ltd
Published: 2016-02-19T05:00:00+00:00

Notes

1 A miniature has been cut from the Modena manuscript, along with a short section of the text. The missing lines are replaced here by the corresponding passage from the Paris manuscript B. N. fr. 747.

2 The Modena text resumes.

3 More lines are lost because of the missing miniature: the Paris manuscript replaces them.

4 The Modena text resumes.

5 Another miniature has been cut from the Modena manuscript. The missing lines are again supplied from the Paris manuscript B. N. fr. 747.

6 The Modena text resumes.

7 Literally ‘and those who at his time will reign’.

8 Another fragment is lost from the Modena manuscript because of the missing miniature. Lines from B. N. fr. 747 again replace it.

9 The Modena text resumes.

10 There is a play on words here, juxtaposing sanc (‘blood’) and sens (‘intelligence’).

11 Literally ‘Merlin was lord of...’.

12 A reference to the work of Geoffrey of Monmouth.

13 i. e. Pendragon.

14 This is, of course, Stonehenge.

15 The manuscript reads ‘tell you nothing’. There appears to be a simple scribal error, writing dire nule cose rather than celer nule cose.

16 The Modena manuscript reads en cambre son segnor (‘in her lord’s chamber’), rather than en samblance son segnor as in other texts. The latter phrase is probably necessary to make full sense of the situation.

17 Logres is here thought of as a city rather than – as is more usual in Arthurian romance – a land.

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