Ydiers

The Prose Merlin (English)

• attestation: Ydiers departs or rides [p81]: ben thei departed discounfited, (CHAPTER VII: Merlin comes to the barons.)

  "Neuertheless, so peyned ydiers men that they haue hym remounted on horse-bak, and so ben thei departed discounfited, and the chase lasted longe tyme, and so the vij kynges losten I-nough, for of all the harneys that thei hade brought thider, thei hadde not with hem the valew of ijd, that all ne was"

• attestation: Ydiers is attested [p81] in CHAPTER VII: Merlin comes to the barons.: "ydiers, and Wende to smyte hym on t" (CHAPTER VII: Merlin comes to the barons.)

  "And so fill it that Arthur ouer-toke kynge ydiers, and Wende to smyte hym on the helme, but the horse bar hym to faste, so that the stroke descended on the horse and slyt hym euen a-sondre be-hynde the sadill, and ydiers and his horse blusshet to the erthe;"

• attestation: Ydiers is attested [p109] in CHAPTER X: The battle between arthur and the rebel zings at bredigan.: "Ydiers, and the kynge Yrien, and th" (CHAPTER X: The battle between arthur and the rebel zings at bredigan.)

  "Ther was Gifflet vn-horsed, and lucas the botiller, and the kynge brangore, and the kinge Ydiers, and the kynge Yrien, and the kynge aguysas."

• attestation: Ydiers is involved in a battle [p112] (context: "and harde bataile, and grete occ") (CHAPTER X: The battle between arthur and the rebel zings at bredigan.)

  "Ther was a merveillouse stoure and harde bataile, and grete occision of men and of horse, but thei myght not suffre longe, ne endure the peple of kynge ydiers, but were driven bak vpon the warde of kynge Aguysans of Scotlonde, that gretly hem counforted and sustened."

• attestation: Ydiers is involved in a battle [p112] (context: "e-gan the bataile merveilouse an") (CHAPTER X: The battle between arthur and the rebel zings at bredigan.)

  "Here be-gan the bataile merveilouse and harde."

• attestation: Death is referenced near Ydiers [p115]: ereyle of deth. Than the. kyn (CHAPTER X: The battle between arthur and the rebel zings at bredigan.)

  "Ther thei stalled and a-bode, and knewe well yef thei hadde be in the playn thei hadde be in pereyle of deth."

• attribution: Ydiers holds the title of king of Korthumbirlonde (CHAPTER X: The battle between arthur and the rebel zings at bredigan.)

  "chiualers, and the kynge Carados, and the kynge vrien and the kynge ydiers, and the kynge brangore, and the kynge of Korthumbirlonde, helde hem to-geder;"

• attestation: Ydiers is involved in a battle [p123] (context: "d fro the bataile. And whan the") (CHAPTER XII: The return of the eleven rings to their cities, and their encounter)

  "And thedir yede the kynge Ydiers with iij M1 men of armes of hem that ascaped fro the bataile."

• attestation: Ydiers departs or rides [p123]: t all day rode thourgh the lo (CHAPTER XII: The return of the eleven rings to their cities, and their encounter)

  "And whan the kynge Ydiers was come, thei of the Citee were gladde, for thei 1 were in grete affray, and with-oute counseile of the saisnes, that all day rode thourgh the londe, and so moche be purchased of kynges and Dukes as he that was enterpendant, that he hadde vij M1 at his baner of Sowdiours."