Gifflet

The Prose Merlin (English)

• attestation: Arms mentioned near Gifflet [p110]: h all the shelde ; and than the (CHAPTER X: The battle between arthur and the rebel zings at bredigan.)

  "And whan bretell saugh this he com thider, and smote the first that he mette so harde thourgh the helme that he slyt hym to the teth, and after he smote the seconde on the arme, that he made it fie in to the felde with all the shelde ;"

• attestation: Narrative action [p116] in CHAPTER XI: The doings of king arthur after the battle, and his departure involving Gifflet: "wes, and alle the tother lay and rested hem till d" (CHAPTER XI: The doings of king arthur after the battle, and his departure)

  "Pharien and leonces kepte towarde the wode, and Gifflet and lucas towarde the medowes, and alle the tother lay and rested hem till day, and than thei ete and dranke grete plente, for thei hadde I-nough of vitaile."