Le Morte Arthur: A Middle English Metrical Romance (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Le Morte Arthur: A Middle English Metrical RomanceXXI of Malory's Morte Darthur. The two possibilities as to its relation to Malory are: (1) that our romance is the source of Malory's last two books, (2) that our romance and Books XX and XXI of Malory are taken from the same source. Dr. Sommer, in his monumen tal edition of Malory, remains undecided between these two possibilities, but Bruce (in Anglia, XXIII, 67 if.) has shown the latter to be the more probable. The source of these two versions seems to have been a (now lost) modification of the Old French Mort Artu, as the last part'of the thirteenth-century prose romance, generally referred to as the Vulgate Lancelot, is called. In the Notes I have quoted some of the more striking parallels from both the Mort Artu and Malory, but for a full discussion the stu dent is referred to Bruce's article in Anglia and to his edition of the Old French Mort Artu (hallo, Although it has been proved conclusively that Malory was not wholly dependent upon our poem, nevertheless the many verbal similarities prove almost as conclusively that he was familiar with it and often borrowed its phraseology.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.