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Merlin. (Robert de Boron poem) Merlin is a partly lost French epic poem written by Robert de Boron in Old French and dating from either the end of the 12th [2] or beginning of the 13th century. [3] The author reworked Geoffrey of Monmouth 's material on the legendary Merlin, emphasising Merlin's power to prophesy and linking him to the Holy ...
Romance tradition elaborates on how Arthur came into possession of Excalibur. In Robert de Boron's c. 1200 French poem Merlin, the first known tale to mention the "sword in the stone" motif, Arthur obtained the British throne by pulling a sword from an anvil sitting atop a stone that appeared in a churchyard on Christmas Eve. [18]
Robert de Boron is considered the author of two surviving poems in octosyllabic verse, the Grail story Joseph d’Arimathie, ou le Roman de l’estoire dou Graal and Merlin; the latter survives only in fragments and in later version rendered in prose (possibly too by Robert himself).
Around the turn of the 13th century, Robert de Boron retold and expanded on this material in Merlin, an Old French epic poem inspired by Wace's Roman de Brut, an Anglo-Norman creative adaptation of Geoffrey's Historia. The work presents itself as the story of Merlin's life as told by Merlin himself to be written down by the "real" author while ...
The Fisher King's next development occurred around the end of the 12th century in Robert de Boron's Joseph d'Arimathie , the first work to connect the Grail with Jesus. Here, the "Rich Fisher" is called Bron , a name similar enough to Bran to suggest a relationship, and said to be the brother-in-law of Joseph of Arimathea , who had used the ...
The legend that Joseph was given the responsibility of keeping the Holy Grail was the product of Robert de Boron, who essentially expanded upon stories from Acts of Pilate. In Boron's Joseph d'Arimathie [ fr ] , Joseph is imprisoned much as in the Acts of Pilate , but it is the Grail that sustains him during his captivity.
The story of Arthur drawing the sword from a stone appeared in Robert de Boron's 13th-century Merlin. By Howard Pyle (1903) [ 97 ] Arthur and his retinue appear in some of the Lais of Marie de France , [ 98 ] but it was the work of another French poet, Chrétien de Troyes , that had the greatest influence with regard to the development of ...
The esplumoir Merlin is a place mentioned in the Arthurian legend in relation with the magician Merlin. It notably appears in the Didot Perceval [ fr] uncertainly attributed to Robert de Boron, and is also mentioned in Raoul de Houdenc's Meraugis de Portlesguez. Its nature is uncertain, but it probably relates to a metamorphosis into a bird.