Note 1 — APPENDICES.
Reading edition
In a note to his translation of the ballad of ‘Pérédur ou le Bassin Magique,’ Th. de la Villemarqué1 gives a Breton version of the ‘Three Golden Apples’ story. Pérédur is induced to abandon the state of retirement in which his mother has kept him, after the death of his father and his five brothers, by seeing Owen ride by, ‘seeking the knight who divided the apples at the Court of Arthur.’ Upon this the annotator remarks that the episode here alluded to has not been discovered; but, by way of compensation, he supplies the following, which was told him by a peasant of the diocese of Quimper, who could not read, and had received it by tradition from his forefathers.