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PARTONOPEUS DE BLOIS

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PARTONOPEUS DE See also:

BLOIS , See also:hero of See also:romance. The See also:French romance of Partonopeus de Blois See also:dates from the 13th See also:century, and has been assigned, on the strength of an ambiguous passage in the See also:prologue to his See also:Vie seint See also:Edmund le rei to See also:Denis Piramus. The See also:tale is, in its essence a variation of the See also:legend of See also:Cupid and See also:Psyche. Partenopeus is represented as having lived in the days of See also:Clovis, See also:king of See also:France. He was seized while See also:hunting in the See also:Ardennes, and carried off to a mysterious See also:castle, the inhabitants of which were invisible. Melior, empress of See also:Constantinople, came to him at See also:night, stipulating that he must not See also:attempt to see her for two years and a See also:half. After successful fighting against the " See also:Saracens," led by Sornegur, king of See also:Denmark, he returned to the castle, armed with an enchanted See also:lantern which See also:broke the spell. The consequent misfortunes have a happy termination. The tale had a continuation giving the adventures of Fursin or Anselet, the See also:nephew of Sornegur. The name of Partonopeus or Partonopex is generally assumed to be a corruption of Parthenopaeus, one of the seven against See also:Thebes. It has been suggested that the word might be derived from Partenay, a supposition coloured by the points of similarity between this See also:story and the legend of Melusine (see See also:JEAN D'See also:ARRAS) attached to the See also:house of See also:Lusignan, as the lords of these two places were connected. BIBLIoGn,gPHY.—The French romance was edited by G.

A. See also:

Crape-let, with an introduction by A. C. M. See also:Robert, as Partonopeus de Blois (2 vols., 1834) ; an See also:English Partonope of Blois, by W. E. Buckley for the See also:Roxburghe See also:Club (See also:London, 1862), and another fragment for the same learned society in 1873; the See also:German Partonopier and Melior of Konrad von See also:Wurzburg by K. Bartsch (See also:Vienna, 1871); the Icelandic Partaldpa See also:saga by O. Klockhoff in See also:Upsala Universitets Arsskrift for 1887. See also H. L. See also:Ward, See also:Catalogue of Romances, (i.

689, &c.) ; E. Kolbing, See also:

Die verschiedenen Gestaltungen der Partonopeus-See also:Sage, in German. See also:Stud. (vol. ii., Vienna, 1875), in which the Icelandic version is compared with the Danish poem Persenober and the See also:Spanish See also:prose Iiistoria del See also:conde Partinobles; E. See also:Pfeiffer, " Ober die HSS See also:des See also:Part. de Blois " in Stengel's Ausg. in Abh. vom Phil. (No. 25, See also:Marburg, 1885).

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