Bibliographic Details
| Title: |
Del cigne firent messager: Swan as Llatai in Marie de France's Milun. |
| Authors: |
Brannelly, L. A.1, Lopatin, Jennifer2, McMullen, A. Joseph2 |
| Source: |
Romance Notes. 2022, Vol. 62 Issue 3, p539-549. 11p. |
| Subject Terms: |
*SWANS, *BRETON literature, *ROMANTICISM in literature, *MESSENGERS in literature |
| People: |
MARIE, de France, 12th century |
| Abstract: |
This article revisits the swan love-messenger in Marie de France's Milun —a topic of much critical attention— to posit a new analogue and consider its implications. While scholars have widely praised the uniqueness of Marie's swan, they have overlooked a similar cygnine envoy in the fourteenth- or fifteenth-century Welsh poem Yr Alarch ("The Swan") and generally ignored the broader Welsh llatai ("love-messenger") tradition. Since Marie frequently claims to have drawn on Breton tales for her Lais , we will explore the possibility that she might have adopted her love-messenger from Brittonic sources that reach their pinnacle with Dafydd ap Gwilym. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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