Die nordische und die englische Version der Tristan-Sage, Part 2

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Eugen Kölbing
Gebr. Henninger, 1882 - 292 pages
 

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Page 119 - s at full, the happy pair are met. Mar. How hath this morning paid me for my rising ! First, with my sports ; but most with meeting you. I did not half so well reward my hounds, As she hath me to-day ; although I gave them All the sweet morsels called tongue, ears, and dowcets ! Rob.
Page 108 - Tristrem is uniformly represented as the patron of the chase, and the first who reduced hunting to a science. Thus the report of a hunter, upon sight of 'a hart in pride of greece' begins — ' Before the king I come report to make, Then hushed and peace for noble Tristrame's sake.
Page 127 - Ipomydon resseyueth he now. Tholomew a clerk he toke, That taught the chyld vppon the boke, Bothe to synge and to rede ; And after he taught hym other dede : Aftirward to serve in halle, Bothe to grete and to smalle : Before the kyng mete to kerve, Hye and low feyre to serve...
Page 109 - Fowre maner bestes of venery there are, The first of hem is a hart, the second is an hare, The boar is one of tho, The wolf, and no mo.
Page 108 - In wodde to chase the wild dere, And in the feld to ryde a stede, That all men had joy of his dede.
Page 108 - P. 174. In another passage it is said, ** Our Tristram reckoneth the bore for one of the four beastes of venerie."— Marginal Note, p.
Page 121 - One crooke of the numbles lyeth ever more Vnder the throte-bole of the beast before, That is called avauncers whoso can them ken, And the bravest part of the numbles then ; That is to say, the forcers, that lyn even between The two thighs of the beast, that other crookes wen. In the midret, that is called the roundill also, For the sides round about corven it is fro.
Page 153 - ... was intended to regulate the draught of each individual guest, so that all might have an equal share of the beverage. It was of Anglo-Saxon origin, and is, by the facetious Grose, supposed to have given rise to our vulgar expression of drinking to a merry pin. William of Malmesbury gives the honour of this invention to no less a personage than St Dunstan : " In tantum et in frivolis pacis sequax, ut quia...
Page 136 - Then towards King Arthur's table The boy he turn'd his eye : Where stood a boar's head garnished With bayes and rosemarye. When thrice he o'er the boar's head His little wand had drawne, Quoth he, " There's never a cuckold's knife Can carve this head of brawne.
Page 136 - The borys hede that we bryng here, Betokeneth a prince with owte pere, Ys borne this day to bye vs dere, Nowell. A bore ys a souerayn beste, And acceptable in euery feste, So mote thys lord be to moste and leste, Nowell. This borys hede we bryng with song, In worchyp of hym that thus sprang Of a virgyne to redresse all wrong, Nowell.

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