Ygeme

The Prose Merlin (English)

• attestation: Ygeme is attested [p40] in CHAPTER III: Pendragon is made king.: "Ygeme he sente as he trowed sholde" (CHAPTER III: Pendragon is made king.)

  "And to Ygeme he sente as he trowed sholde beste hir plese, and she knewe and sigh wele that he hadde sente to alle other ladies, and ther-fore she durste not refuse hirs, but receyved hem, and thought wele in her herte, that the kynge ne hadde not yeven to"

• attestation: Ygeme departs or rides [p41]: And thus departed the courte ; a (CHAPTER III: Pendragon is made king.)

  "And thus departed the courte ;"

• attestation: Ygeme is defeated [p42]: wolde be ouercome; and therfore (CHAPTER III: Pendragon is made king.)

  "And the kynge seyde so sholde a gode lady ansuere, for ther was nener gode lady that lightly wolde be ouercome;"

• attestation: Ygeme departs or rides [p45]: as Vlfin rode thourgh the os (CHAPTER III: Pendragon is made king.)

  "And on a* day, as Vlfin rode thourgh the oste, he mette with a man that he nothinge kenned."

• attribution: Ygeme holds the title of king of his (CHAPTER III: Pendragon is made king.)

  "And yef ye and the kynge will wele quyte my nede, I shall make yow a-queynte with a gode man that shall make yow speke mith Ygeme, and that shall wele counseile the kynge of his desir."

• attestation: Ygeme is attested [p47] in CHAPTER III: Pendragon is made king.: "Ygeme, and he ne shall devise nothi" (CHAPTER III: Pendragon is made king.)

  "but I pray hym hertely to helpe me to haue the love of Ygeme, and he ne shall devise nothinge that is to me possible but that I shall it gladly don."

• attestation: Marriage near Ygeme [p56]: the kynge wedded to Ygeme, and (CHAPTER V: The barons counsel the king.)

  "T hus was the kynge wedded to Ygeme, and kepe her till her gretnesse apered."

• attestation: Marriage near Ygeme [p56]: thei were wedded, ffor he hadde (CHAPTER V: The barons counsel the king.)

  "And as the kynge on a nyght lay with her, he asked with whom she was so grete, and pat she myght not be so grete with hym, seth the tyme thei were wedded, ffor he hadde neuer tyme with her leyn but that the tyme was wreten;"

• relationship: Wife of Ygeme is mentioned (CHAPTER V: The barons counsel the king.)

  "and thow knowest wele that thy wif Ygeme is deed, and that thow maist no mo haue;"

• attestation: Ygeme is attested [p75] in CHAPTER VII: Merlin comes to the barons.: "Ygeme the same nyght that her lorde" (CHAPTER VII: Merlin comes to the barons.)

  "Merlin a-rose vpon his feet and seide, “ Sirs, I haue be-gonne for Merlin tells to telle vow whos sone was the kynge Arthur, and I do yow to thur is the wite alle that beth here that he was the sone of Yterpendragon, pentagon, that hym engendred on Ygeme the same nyght that her lorde was slayn vpon"