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GUILLAUME DE PALERME ( See also: hero of See also: romance
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The French verse romance was written at the See also: desire of a Countess Yolande, generally identified with Yolande, daughter of Baldwin IV., count of See also: Flanders
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The See also: English poem in alliterative verse was written about 1350 by a poet called See also: William, at the desire of Humphrey
See also: Bohun, See also: earl of See also: Hereford, (d
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1361)
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Guillaume, a foundling supposed to be of low degree, is brought up at the See also: court of the emperor of See also: Rome, and loves his daughter Melior who is destined for a See also: Greek See also: prince
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The lovers flee into the woods disguised in bear-skins
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Alfonso, who is Guillaume's See also: cousin and a See also: Spanish prince, has been changed into a See also: wolf by his step-See also: mother's enchantments
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He provides See also: food and See also: protection for the fugitives, and Guillaume eventually triumphs over Alfonso's See also: father, and wins back from him his See also: kingdom
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The benevolent werwolf is disenchanted, and marries Guillaume's See also: sister
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See Guillaume de Palerne, ed
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H
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Michelant (See also: Soc. d. anc. textes fr., 1876) ; Hist. litt. de la See also: France, xxii
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829; William of Palerme, ed . See also: Sir F
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See also: Madden (See also: Roxburghe See also: Club, 1832), and W
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W
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See also: Skeat (E
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E
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Text Soc., extra series No
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1, 1867) ; M
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Kaluza, in Eng
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Studien (See also: Heilbronn, iv
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196)
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The See also: prose version of the French romance, printed by N
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Bonfons, passed through several See also: editions
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