Note 39 — BOOK I.
T. (Tobias) Smollett translation
The name of a good-natured inchantress in Amadis de Gaul. During the age of knight-errantry, it was usual for ladies to study the art of surgery, in order to dress the wounds of those knights who were their servants. One of the heroines of Perce Forest says to Norgal, ‘Fair nephew, methinks your arm is not at ease.’—‘In faith, dear lady,’ answered Norgal, ‘you are in the right; and I beseech you to take it under your care.’ Then she called her daughter Helen, who entertained her cousin with good cheer, and afterwards reduced his arm which was dislocated.