Yortiger

The Prose Merlin (English)

• attestation: Yortiger arrives or returns [p15]: the kynge com to Yortiger, and (CHAPTER II: King vortiger and his tower.)

  "The hethen assembled a grete oste vpon hem, and the kynge com to Yortiger, and seide, “ Gode frende, helpe to diffende the lande, for I and alle the peple be at thy comallndelnent."

• attestation: Fighting near Yortiger [p15]: m redy to fyght, but they were (CHAPTER II: King vortiger and his tower.)

  "TTThen the kynge and thise other sye that ther was noon helpe * ' in hym, ne socour, they returned, and arayed hem, and made hem redy to fyght, but they were disconfited of the hethen peple;"

• attestation: Warfare near Yortiger [p16]: Yortiger werre longe tyme, an (CHAPTER II: King vortiger and his tower.)

  "In this maner hadde Yortiger werre longe tyme, and often tyme faught so with them that he drof hem oute of hys londe."

• attestation: Warfare near Yortiger [p17]: de of his werre. Than Angiers (CHAPTER II: King vortiger and his tower.)

  "Than com Angier to Yortiger, and serued hym trewly till he hadde made ende of his werre."

• attestation: Yortiger sends for someone [p17]: . Than he sente after alle the wises (CHAPTER II: King vortiger and his tower.)

  "Than he sente after alle the wisest men of his londe."

• attestation: Yortiger is attested [p17] in CHAPTER II: King vortiger and his tower.: "Yortiger sye that, he was ferde to" (CHAPTER II: King vortiger and his tower.)

  "When Yortiger sye that, he was ferde to lese his londe."

• attribution: Yortiger is described as is a grete merveile (CHAPTER II: King vortiger and his tower.)

  "And when Yortiger herde this, he heilde this a grete merveile, and trowed that that the clerkes seiden trewe."

• attestation: Death is referenced near Yortiger [p23]: werke stondeth not, lete my p (CHAPTER II: King vortiger and his tower.)

  "and yef it be founde that this be cause that the werke stondeth not, lete my plegges be quyte, and the clerkes in blame, that of all this no knewe nothinge."

• attestation: Yortiger is attested [p25] in CHAPTER II: King vortiger and his tower.: "Yortiger cjm to hym, and seide, “Te" (CHAPTER II: King vortiger and his tower.)

  "Yortiger cjm to hym, and seide, “Telle me the significaunce of the two dragons."

• attestation: Yortiger speaks or is addressed [p27]: "seide to them that he trusted that thei" (CHAPTER III: Pendragon is made king.)

  "And when he saugh the moste parte of his peple him failled, he hadde grete drede, and seide to them that he trusted that thei sholde stuffe the Castell;"

• attestation: Yortiger is attested [p27] in CHAPTER III: Pendragon is made king.: "Yortiger of these tidinges, and axe" (CHAPTER III: Pendragon is made king.)

  "F ull sorowfull was Yortiger of these tidinges, and axed of Merlin yef it myght be eny other maner."