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A review by leesmyth
Erec and Enide by Chrétien de Troyes
4.0
I didn't like this one quite as much as Yvain, but the narrator's comments were certainly amusing.
(Sample: They've just set up for a feast with
"At least five hundred [tables], or more.
Yet how can I dare describe
What you won't believe? Five hundred
Tables in a palace hall?
You'd think me a colossal liar.
But it's not what I said: they filled
Five rooms, not one, and packed them
So tight you could hardly move.")
There's a curious thread of naming throughout the poem - who reveals their name to whom, and under what conditions. There may be a deeper meaning in it, but I've not figured it out yet.
(Sample: They've just set up for a feast with
"At least five hundred [tables], or more.
Yet how can I dare describe
What you won't believe? Five hundred
Tables in a palace hall?
You'd think me a colossal liar.
But it's not what I said: they filled
Five rooms, not one, and packed them
So tight you could hardly move.")
There's a curious thread of naming throughout the poem - who reveals their name to whom, and under what conditions. There may be a deeper meaning in it, but I've not figured it out yet.