ABSTRACT
Found only in a fifteenth-century manuscript, probably from around Lyons but now in the National Library in Paris (BN, fr. 2154), this romance about King Arthur has not known a very wide audience. Yet the motifs which are included (magic trees with protective blossoms, ghostarmies, a friendly unicorn, loss of real time when visiting an enchanted realm, and bridges to the other world) have apparent models in many earlier, popular medieval stories. These motifs continued to be imitated in later works in other lands, particularly in Germany (as in the Wigalois of Wirnt von Grafenberg).
