Note 107 — Chapter IV · ROMANCE

This, of course, raises a vexed question,—two schools of critics, one German, and the other English, French and American, being at feud upon it. In connection with the alleged Welsh origin of some of these traditions, it may be mentioned that the suggestion has been recently made that the first collection of them for “romantic” purposes was due to a Welshman variously known as Bledri, Bleheris, or Bledhericus, who lived probably in the eleventh century, and is spoken of by Giraldus Cambrensis as a ‘famosus fabulator, qui tempora nostra paulo prævenit.’ See Weston, Legend of Sir Perceval, Vol. I. Ch. 12.