Ygerne

The Prose Merlin (English)

• relationship: Wife of Ygerne is mentioned (CHAPTER III: Pendragon is made king.)

  "the tyme of Pasch, and than gan to assemble alle the barons and all the ladyes at Car¬ doel, and grete was the ioye that the kynge made, till it come to the mete tyme that the kynge made the Duke of Tintagel to be set be-fore hym-self, and also his wif Ygerne, so that Ygeme ne myght not eschewe hut"

• attestation: Ygerne is attested [p41] in CHAPTER III: Pendragon is made king.: "Ygerne, so that Ygeme ne myght not" (CHAPTER III: Pendragon is made king.)

  "tyme of Pasch, and than gan to assemble alle the barons and all the ladyes at Car¬ doel, and grete was the ioye that the kynge made, till it come to the mete tyme that the kynge made the Duke of Tintagel to be set be-fore hym-self, and also his wif Ygerne, so that Ygeme ne myght not eschewe hut to r"

• attestation: Ygerne departs or rides [p42]: ” A nd so departed Ygeme; and Ylf (CHAPTER III: Pendragon is made king.)

  "” A nd so departed Ygeme;"

• attestation: Ygerne is attested [p42] in CHAPTER III: Pendragon is made king.: "Ygerne, and tolde hir many thinges" (CHAPTER III: Pendragon is made king.)

  "And Ylfyn spake with Ygerne, and tolde hir many thinges that he myght, as he trowed beste her plese;"

• attestation: Ygerne departs or rides [p43]: With that departed Vlfyn from hir (CHAPTER III: Pendragon is made king.)

  ",, With that departed Vlfyn from hir."

• attestation: Ygerne is attested [p43] in CHAPTER III: Pendragon is made king.: "Ygerne hadde eten; and she.knewe we" (CHAPTER III: Pendragon is made king.)

  "Than they yede to the chamber wher as Ygerne hadde eten;"

• attestation: Ygerne sends for someone [p44]: erne, and sente after his counseile, (CHAPTER III: Pendragon is made king.)

  "O n the morowe, whan the kynge wiste the Duke was thus i-gon, he was hevy and sorowfull for that he hadde ledde a-wey Ygerne, and sente after his counseile, and shewde hem the shame and the dispite the Duke hadde hym don."

• attestation: Death is referenced near Ygerne [p45]: le that I dye full of loue of (CHAPTER III: Pendragon is made king.)

  "And the kynge seide, “ Thow knowest wele wherfore, for thow woste wele that I dye full of loue of Ygerne, for I have loste bothe mete and drynke, and all reste that a man ought to have."

• attestation: Ygerne is attested [p46] in CHAPTER III: Pendragon is made king.: "Ygerne.” And the kynge seide, “Thow" (CHAPTER III: Pendragon is made king.)

  "for ther is no man that may yow helpe so Wele to haue the love of Ygerne."

• attestation: Ygerne is attested [p47] in CHAPTER III: Pendragon is made king.: "Ygerne, and don with hir youre best" (CHAPTER III: Pendragon is made king.)

  "” And Merlin ansuerde, “How may I here-of be sure, but yef ye be sworn, and also lete Ylfyn swere, that I shall haue that I aske on the morn that ye haue leye with Ygerne, and don with hir youre beste?"

• attestation: Birth or delivery near Ygerne [p49]: hen it is born. fore I shall (CHAPTER III: Pendragon is made king.)

  "• He says that he requires the king to give him the child he has begotten on Ygerne when it is born."

• attestation: The queen gives birth after midnight as predicted and hands the child to a trusted woman (CHAPTER V: The barons counsel the king.)

  "a-noon after mydnyght she was delyuerid. And than a-noon she cleped a woman that she moste trusted"