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The Sweet and Touching Tale of Fleur & Blanchefleur
A Mediæval Legend
Translated from the French by Mrs. Leighton
London, Daniel O\'Connor, 1922, 1st. edition
Pictorial beige cloth (Title and illustration in blue line)
19 x 25,5 cm.
61 Pages
BOARDS: GOOD
INTERIOR: VERY GOOD
With 37 illustrations in primary colors by Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale
A medieval legend of a classic tale of how true love is rewarded
A popular romantic story that was told in the Middle Ages in many different vernacular languages and versions. It first appears in Europe around 1160 in aristocratic French. Roughly between the period 1200 and 1350 it was one of the most popular of all the romantic plots.
The poem tells of the troubles of the two eponymous lovers. Blancheflour (\"white flower\") is a Christian princess abducted by Saracens and raised with the pagan prince Flores (\"belonging to the flower\"). The two fall in love and separate. Blancheflour gives Flores a ring that will reflect her state, so that it will tarnish if she is in danger.
Blancheflour is in a different caliphate from Flores, and there she is accused falsely and sent as a slave to a Tower of Maidens.
The Emir has within his garden a \"Tree of Love\" that determines a new wife for him every year. Its flower will fall on the destined maiden from the harem, and yet he can also magically manipulate the tree to cast its flower upon a favorite. He has decided to make it fall on Blancheflour, for she is the loveliest virgin in the harem.
Flores, knowing that Blancheflour is about to be taken by the Emir as a wife, comes to rescue her from her peril. The reunited lovers are found in bed (though they were chastely together) by the Emir the next morning. When he hears their whole tale of chaste love and long promises to one another, he demands proof of her virginity by having her put her hands in a water that will stain if she has been with a man. She is proven pure, he pardons both lovers, and all is well.
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A Mediæval Legend
Translated from the French by Mrs. Leighton
London, Daniel O\'Connor, 1922, 1st. edition
Pictorial beige cloth (Title and illustration in blue line)
19 x 25,5 cm.
61 Pages
BOARDS: GOOD
INTERIOR: VERY GOOD
With 37 illustrations in primary colors by Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale
A medieval legend of a classic tale of how true love is rewarded
A popular romantic story that was told in the Middle Ages in many different vernacular languages and versions. It first appears in Europe around 1160 in aristocratic French. Roughly between the period 1200 and 1350 it was one of the most popular of all the romantic plots.
The poem tells of the troubles of the two eponymous lovers. Blancheflour (\"white flower\") is a Christian princess abducted by Saracens and raised with the pagan prince Flores (\"belonging to the flower\"). The two fall in love and separate. Blancheflour gives Flores a ring that will reflect her state, so that it will tarnish if she is in danger.
Blancheflour is in a different caliphate from Flores, and there she is accused falsely and sent as a slave to a Tower of Maidens.
The Emir has within his garden a \"Tree of Love\" that determines a new wife for him every year. Its flower will fall on the destined maiden from the harem, and yet he can also magically manipulate the tree to cast its flower upon a favorite. He has decided to make it fall on Blancheflour, for she is the loveliest virgin in the harem.
Flores, knowing that Blancheflour is about to be taken by the Emir as a wife, comes to rescue her from her peril. The reunited lovers are found in bed (though they were chastely together) by the Emir the next morning. When he hears their whole tale of chaste love and long promises to one another, he demands proof of her virginity by having her put her hands in a water that will stain if she has been with a man. She is proven pure, he pardons both lovers, and all is well.
Shipping fee (The Netherlands: € 4,25; Europe: € 11,99) to be paid by buyer