Periods of European Literature, Volume 2W. Blackwood, 1897 |
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Página vii
... Welsh and Irish I know only in translations . Now it so happens that for the period - French is , more than at any other time , the capital literature of Europe . Very much of the rest is directly translated from it ; still more is ...
... Welsh and Irish I know only in translations . Now it so happens that for the period - French is , more than at any other time , the capital literature of Europe . Very much of the rest is directly translated from it ; still more is ...
Página ix
... Celticists who speak as scholars , no Welsh or Irish texts affecting the capital question of the Arthurian legends can be certainly attributed to the twelfth or early thirteenth centuries . It seemed to me , there- PREFACE . ix.
... Celticists who speak as scholars , no Welsh or Irish texts affecting the capital question of the Arthurian legends can be certainly attributed to the twelfth or early thirteenth centuries . It seemed to me , there- PREFACE . ix.
Página 91
... Welsh re- ference to Arthur ; thirdly , the famous passage of Nennius , which introduces him for the first time to probably dated literature ; fourthly , the curious refer- ences in the above - referred - to Vita Gilda of , or attrib ...
... Welsh re- ference to Arthur ; thirdly , the famous passage of Nennius , which introduces him for the first time to probably dated literature ; fourthly , the curious refer- ences in the above - referred - to Vita Gilda of , or attrib ...
Página 92
... Welsh poetry which may be as old as the sixth century — allusions , it is true , of the vaguest and most meagre kind , and touching no point of his received story except his mysterious death or no - death , but fairly corroborative of ...
... Welsh poetry which may be as old as the sixth century — allusions , it is true , of the vaguest and most meagre kind , and touching no point of his received story except his mysterious death or no - death , but fairly corroborative of ...
Página 95
... Welsh notices of the king- " Not wise is it to seek the grave of Arthur . " : A few people , perhaps , who read this little book will need to be told that Geoffrey attributed the new and striking facts which he sprung upon Its lacunæ ...
... Welsh notices of the king- " Not wise is it to seek the grave of Arthur . " : A few people , perhaps , who read this little book will need to be told that Geoffrey attributed the new and striking facts which he sprung upon Its lacunæ ...
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Alexander Aliscans alliteration Anglo-Saxon appears Arthur Arthurian legend ballads Benoît Benoît de Sainte-More Briseida Callisthenes Celtic certainly chansons de geste character Charlemagne charm Chaucer Chrestien classical criticism crusader curious Dares decasyllable earlier early edition English epic fabliaux fact famous fighting France French Gawain German Gottfried Graal Greek Grettir Guinevere Hartmann Havelok Heinrich hero Icelandic interest Italian kind King knights Kudrun Lancelot language later Latin Layamon least less literary literature lover lyric matter mediæval merely Merlin metre Middle Ages Minnesingers modern Nectanabus never Nibelungenlied older original Ormulum Paris Parzival perhaps person poem poetical poetry poets present probably proper prose prosody Provençal Renart rhyme Roland Roman d'Alixandre romances sagas Saracens seems sometimes spirit stanza story syllables texts things thirteenth century tion tongues translation Tristram Troilus trouvère twelfth century vernacular verse Walter whole William Wolfram Wolfram von Eschenbach writers written