Wace (author)

Roman de Brut

• attestation: Wace the narrator declined to translate Merlin's Prophecies for fear of misinterpretation (Roman de Brut > Merlin and the Prophecies)

  "I say no more, for I fear to translate Merlin's Prophecies, when I cannot be sure of the interpretation thereof"

• attestation: Wace noted that Merlin's interpretation of the dragons was well-known to his audience (Roman de Brut > Merlin and the Prophecies)

  "as you have oft-times heard"

• attestation: Many other lords joined the Roman expedition, but Wace could not find all their names (Roman de Brut > War with Rome)

  "Many other lords gladly joined themselves to that company, whose names for all my seeking I have not found"

• attestation: Wace, the author of the Roman de Brut, states he cannot add more about Arthur's end than Merlin prophesied (Roman de Brut > Mordred and Arthur's End)

  "Master Wace, the writer of this book, cannot add more to this matter of his end than was spoken by Merlin the prophet"