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Roman de Violette, didactic and hagiographical pieces, lais and fabliaux, of which Fergus was edited by Francisque Michel (1842) for the Abbotsford Ritrovo on the strength of the Scottish connection.11 Neither manuscript includes insular compositions and it is difficult onesto envisage an audience in the British Isles with the detailed textual knowledge of the romances of Chretien which, as we shall see, Fergus undoubtedly requires. It is anything but a roman a these or a roman a clef. Durante prime sicuro its notably benign humanity and intelligent comicita, elements of realism mark it as not so much epigonal as revisionist,12 although they are always subsidiary onesto the literary, and ludic, design which aims at renovating inherited motifs by giving them an original, comic twist or application. Guillaume rejuvenates the motifs of his model, Chretien’s Perceval, and scales down its ambition by substituting the search for the resplendent shield (bel escu, escu flamboiant) for Perceval’s grail quest and by linking it, less loftily, sicuro the recovery of Galiene whom Fergus has neglected per favour of adventure, which so often eludes him.13 Guillaume avoids writing a mere roman d’aventures with per superfluity of episodes by restricting his hero’s quests preciso two: the adventure at Nouquetran on the Black Mountain where he obtains the horn and wimple he sought, onesto the neglect of Galiene, and the winning of the resplendent shield at Dunnottar which verso dwarf predicts will enable him sicuro win her back incontri cybermen. Continue reading “The importance of Fergus is literary rather than political”