Tales of King Arthur and the Round Table, Adapted from the Book of Romance
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Tales of King Arthur and the Round Table, Adapted from the Book of Romance
Arthur, King -- Legends; Arthurian romances -- Adaptations; Folklore -- England; Knights and knighthood -- Folklore
Page 65, l. 27. peer, equal.
Page 66, l. 1. Sir Ector de Maris, Sir Lancelot’s brother.
Page 66, l. 13. Sir Percivale and his sister were the daughter of King
Pellinore.
Page 74, l. 18. King Pelles, the father of Elaine.
Page 77, l. 22. almonries, or almories, cupboards. (Literally places
where alms were distributed; places for broken victuals.)
Page 85, l. 10. made a covenant, made an agreement; undertook.
Page 85, l. 29. couched their spears, put their spears in rest, and
levelled them for the charge.
Page 89, l. 13. Camelot is identified by Malory with Winchester, but
there is reason to believe that actually it was in Somerset.
Page 90, l. 15. a joust was a trial of strength between two knights.
Page 91, l. 10. token. It was the custom for knights to wear their
ladies’ “tokens.”
Page 91, l. 31. burgess, citizen.
Page 93, l. 2. Sir Gawaine. Being the King’s nephew, the King took
special interest in him.
Page 93, l. 18. press, throng, fight.
Page 94, l. 11. mêlée, thick of the fight.
Page 95, l. 32. Northgalis, North Wales.
Page 105, l. 10. Sir Brandiles, one of the knights of the Round Table.
Page 108, l. 2. pavilion, tent.
Page 109, l. 4. doublet, the upper part of a man’s dress.
Page 119, l. 28. lesses les aller, the old French form of the “Laissez
aller” in “Ivanhoe,” meaning “Go!”
Page 131, l. 34. craven, coward.
Page 132, l. 13. Sir Lionel, Sir Bors’ brother.
Page 133, l. 28. olive, the token of peace.
Page 137, l. 14. bell, book, and candle. This curse was so called
because a bell was rung while it was being read from a book, and as soon
as it was over a candle was solemnly extinguished. The last part of the
ceremony was meant to show more clearly to the offender how completely
he was put beyond the grace of the Church.
Page 137, l. 17. waxed, grew.
Page 138, l. 34. salves, ointments.
Page 140, l. 28. tide me death, though death betide me.
Page 142, l. 2. stark, more commonly used with the word stiff (stiff and
stark) to denote death.
Page 143, l. 5. wan, pale, grey.
Page 145, l. 6. alms deeds, deeds of charity.
Page 148, l. 32. dwined, dwindled.
THE END.
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Transcriber’s Notes
--Copyright notice provided as in the original—this e-text is public
domain in the country of publication.
--Silently corrected a few palpable typos; left intentionally
non-standard spellings and dialect unchanged.
--Only in the text versions, delimited italicized text (or
non-italicized text within poetry) in _underscores_ (the HTML version
reproduces the font form of the printed book.)
--Omitted marginal line numbers (which must be dynamic in the electronic
edition), but turned endnotes into hyperlinks.
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Table Adapted from the Book of Rom, by Andrew Lang
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