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Guillaume de Palerme ("William of Palerne") is a French romance poem, later translated into English where it is also known as William and the Werewolf.The French verse romance was composed c. 1200, commissioned by Countess Yolande (who is generally identified as Yolande, daughter of Baldwin IV, Count of Hainaut).
In the first part of the poem, Marie de France seems to use the Norman French word for werewolf, garwaf, interchangeably with the Middle Breton term bisclavret. [7] However, she draws a distinction between ordinary werewolves and Bisclavret. One scholar specifies three evidences for this.
The poems were highly romantic, including stories about werewolves and phantoms. Mérimée drew upon many historic sources for his picturesque and gothic portrait of the Balkans , including a tale about vampires taken from the writings of the 18th-century French monk Dom Calmet .
The poem can be broken down into the following sections: Introduction (vv. 1-14) Melion makes his vow and meets the lady (vv. 15-133) The lady learns the truth (vv. 134-182) The lady betrays Melion (vv. 183-218) Melion follows his wife and joins the wolves (vv. 219-280) Melion joins King Arthur (vv. 281-485) Melion attacks (vv.486-502)
the Werewolf is subjunctive mood." The werewolf's teeth with thanks were bright, but, mitigating his delight, there rose the thought, how could one be hypostasized contingency? The ghost observed that few could live, if werewolves were indicative; whereat his guest perceived the role of Individual in the Whole. Condition contrary to fact,
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The legendary werewolves of Ossory, a kingdom of early medieval Ireland, are the subject of a number of accounts in medieval Irish, English and Norse works. The werewolves were said to have been the descendants of a legendary figure named Laignech Fáelad whose line gave rise to the kings of Ossory .
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