Citee

The Prose Merlin (English)

• attestation: Citee is attested [p84] in CHAPTER VIII: The mission of ulfyn and bretell to kino ban and king bobs.: "Citee that was cleped Beynoyk, that" (CHAPTER VIII: The mission of ulfyn and bretell to kino ban and king bobs.)

  "And so they come to a Citee that was cleped Beynoyk, that now is cleped Burges-in barre, and be-longinge to kynge Claudas de la deserte."

• attestation: Citee is involved in a battle [p120] (context: ", for the bataile hadde endured") (CHAPTER XII: The return of the eleven rings to their cities, and their encounter)

  "ne thei ne ete ne dronke of all that nyght, and no more ne hadde thei don of all the day be-fore, for the bataile hadde endured all the day;"

• attestation: Citee is involved in a battle [p122] (context: "te of the bataile to the Citee o") (CHAPTER XII: The return of the eleven rings to their cities, and their encounter)

  "and soche was theire counseile that thei sholde go with as moche peple as thei myght brynge of hem that were lefte of the bataile to the Citee of Huydecan for to garnyssh it there."

• attribution: Citee is described as was a grete Citee (CHAPTER XII: The return of the eleven rings to their cities, and their encounter)

  "And that was a grete Citee and a stronge."

• attestation: Narrative action [p122] in CHAPTER XII: The return of the eleven rings to their cities, and their encounter involving Citee and Huydecan: "rnyssh it there. And so thei dide it stuffe. And t" (CHAPTER XII: The return of the eleven rings to their cities, and their encounter)

  "And so thei dide it stuffe."

• attestation: Citee is involved in a battle [p130] (context: "t fro the bataile vij M1 with-ou") (CHAPTER XII: The return of the eleven rings to their cities, and their encounter)

  "And he sente thourgh his londe, and somowned alle tho that myght armes bere, and for sowdiours bothe fer and nygh, so that he assembled to-geder what on hors and on fote with the peple that he hadde brought fro the bataile vij M1 with-oute the men of the Citee, wher in was iiij M1 of dwellers."

• attestation: Warfare near Citee [p132]: ortune of werre. And thus this (CHAPTER XII: The return of the eleven rings to their cities, and their encounter)

  "And so thei fought to-geder many tymes, and loste and wonne as is the fortune of werre."