The Coming of Arthur, And Other Idylls of the King
The Coming of Arthur, And Other Idylls of the King
Alfred Tennyson Tennyson
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Cf. Geraint and Enidy 94. 34. Groaned for the Roman legions here again. This may be, as Little- dale suggests, an allusion to the famous Groans of the Britons^ of Gildas, who says that the Britons wrote to the Roman senate : " The barbarians drive us into the sea; the sea throws us back on the barbarians : thus two modes of death await us, we are either slain or drowned." 36. Urien, assailed him. The 1869 ed. had "Rience" for Urien. Geoffrey caUs him the brother of Lot ; Malory makes him the hu...sband of Arthur's sister, Morgan le Fay. He was a king of North Wales, who " made great war upon King Leodegrance of Cameliard " (Malory). 58. Then he drave^ etc. The ist ed. reads : — "And he drave The heathen, and he slew the beast, and fell'd The forest, and let in the sun " 66. Colleaguing with a score of petty kings. This line was not in the 1st ed. 72. Gorlois. Malory calls him the " duke of Tintagel," in Cornwall. Tintagell is now a small- town in Cornwall, on the Bristol Channel, with the ruins of a castle overlooking the sea.
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