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Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Jessie Laidlay Weston (1850–1928) was an independent scholar and folklorist, working mainly on mediaeval Arthurian texts. Start by marking The Legend of Sir Perceval: Studies Upon Its Origin, Development, and Position in the Arthurian Cycle; Volume 1 as Want to Read: Want to Read savin. ant to Read. Weston was the daughter of William Weston a tea merchant and member of the Salters' Company and his second wife, Sarah Burton, and named after his first wife Jessica Laidlay. Sarah, after giving birth to two more daughters died when Jessie was about seven.

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The Legend of Sir PercevalStudies Upon Its Origin, Development, and Position, in the Arthurian Cycleby Jessie L. Weston. Vol. 2. The Legend of Sir Perceval. Studies Upon Its Origin, Development, and Position, in the Arthurian Cycle. IN presenting this second volume of my Perceval Studies to my readers I feel that a few words of explanation as to the quite unexpected development of the subject are necessary.

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Probably it is a compilation similar to that of Sir Thomas Malory, intended to combine the various romances of the Arthurian cycle with which the compiler was familiar, or of which MSS. were at his disposal. In the first instance it was a translation, and I think we must hold a very faithful translation, from the French. Even as we have it we shall find that it agrees closely with parallel French versions. In its original form it consisted of four books, the first of which has unfortunately been lost.

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Jessie Laidlay Weston. Legend of Sir Gawain Studies upon Its Original Scope and Significance. The Legend of Sir Lancelot Du Lac: Studies Upon Its Origin, Development, and Position in the Arthurian Romantic Cycle (Classic Reprint). Jessie Laidlay Weston. The Legends of the Wagner Drama: Studies in Mythology and Romance.

This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.

The marvellous features which the Galahad-Lancelot Queste emphasises have clearly been borrowed from the Gawain romances, and are therefore to be considered as younger than these.

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