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 117 - The hemynges was a piece of the hide cut out to make brogues for the huntsmen. When the versatile David de Strathbogie, Earl of Athole, was hard pressed, and driven to the Highlands by the Earl of Murray in 1335, Winton mentions, as a mark of his distress, That at sa gret myschef he wes, That his knychtes weryd rewelynis, Of hydis, or of hart hemmynys.
Page lxxxv - Ther als mane salle be tane." 1260 Scho calde appone hir chaymbirlayne, Was called hende Hatlayne, The curtasye of Wawayne He weldis in wane ; Scho badd hym wende and see, 1265 " 3if yone mane one lyfe be, Bid hym com and speke with me, And pray hym als thou kane.
Page 120 - So croaked and cried for it, as all the huntsmen, Especially old Scathlock, thought it ominous ; Swore it was Mother Maudlin, whom he met At the day-dawn, just as he roused the deer Out of his lair: but we made shift to run him Off his four legs, and sunk him ere we left.
Page 108 - Tristrem,' seems to have passed into a common proverbial appellation for an expert huntsman. The title of a chapter in 'The Art of Venerie' bears : How you shall rewarde your houndes when they have killed a hare / which the Frenchman calleth the rewarde, and sometime the querry, but our old Tristrem calleth it the hallow.
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 3 - So dos bis world, y say, Y-wis and noujt at wene: pe gode ben al o-way pat our elders have bene, To abide.
Page xv - Mustrated and improv'd by ROBERT OF BRUNNE) . . . ed. Thoma Hearne. Oxford, printed at the Theater, M. DCC. xxv. 2 vol. in-8°, vol. i, p. xcix. Le passage que nous citons a été collationné sur le MS. original, conservé à Inner Temple. (88) Ibid.
Page 116 - Then shall ye slytte the slough there as the herte lyeth, And take awaye the heres from it and by slyeth. For suche heeres hath his herte : ay it vpon : As men maye se in the beest whan he is vndon. And in the myddes of the herte a bone shall ye fynde : Loke ye yeue it to a lorde.
Page 88 - Bitvene Canados and Ganhardin., The fight was ferly strong ; Tristrem thought it pin, That it last so long ; His stirops he made him tine, To grounde he him wrong ; Sir Canados ther gan lyn, The blod thurch brini throng, With care ; On him he wrake his wrong, That he no ros na mare. LXXXIX. Her fon fast thai feld, And mani of hem thai slough, The cuntre with hem meld, Thai wrought hem wo...
Page 160 - The bed-chamber of the queen was constructed of wooden boards or shingles, of which one could easily be removed." This will explain the line which occurs below, 2106, "He stod, and totede in at a bord." 2092. Aboute the middel, &c. In the French, a person is placed by the Seneschal to watch, who first discovers the light. 2132. Bi the pappes he leyen naked. " From the latter end of the 13th to near the 16th century...

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