Dear List Members:

I am wondering if anyone has been able to obtain a copy of The Voulgate: The Book of Arthurian Romances? I have trying to obtain a copy but it seems that is very hard too findout.


David Peters
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I am wondering if anyone has been able to obtain a copy of The Vulgate: The Book of Arthurian Romances? I have trying to obtain a copy but it seems that is very hard too findout.


I've never actually seen a copy
I have this huge $100s copy in Olde Frenche and with English glosses in the margins that recap it
I do get irritated when there are three pages of text which are recapped as "They defy each other," because I'd love to know that flowery language for the game (Stuff like, "My strong sword will not fail me where the son of a mare has," and so on)
Parts are available as books.
Parts not in print are usually really, really boring.

I've also never seen an English-language of the Prose Tristram.

Greg:

Thank you for taking the time to respond to my question.


David Peters

I've also never seen an English-language of the Prose Tristram.



I saw an abridged English-language version of the Prose Tristan once or twice, at the Washington University library in St. Louis.

(I was glad to find a copy there, because I wanted to find out more about an event that Malory briefly mentions in his adaptation of the Tristram story. Tristram's father, King Meliodas, is abducted by a sorceress who desired him, which leads to his wife running into the woods while she's heavy with child to seek her husband; she goes into labor while in the forest, gives birth to Tristram, and dies in the process. Afterwards, Meliodas is rescued by Merlin, but Malory didn't say how. I'm writing a series of children's fantasy stories about Merlin and wanted to make use of that event, so I consulted the Washington University library's copy of the Prose Tristan for more information; unfortunately, its account was that Merlin simply tells the king's nobles where to find him. Not very dramatic.)