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Encyclopedia Britannica



PARTONOPEUS DE BLOIS

This article appears in Volume V20, Page 876 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: PAI-PAS
PARTONOPEUS DE BLOIS , hero of romance. The French romance of Partonopeus de Blois
dates
  from the 13th century, and has been assigned, on the strength of an ambiguous passage in the prologue to his Vie seint Edmund le rei to Denis Piramus. The tale is, in its essence a variation of the legend of Cupid and Psyche. Partenopeus is represented as having lived in the days of Clovis, king of France. He was seized while
hunting
  in the Ardennes, and carried off to a mysterious castle, the inhabitants of which were invisible. Melior, empress of
Constantinople
 , came to him at night, stipulating that he must not attempt to see her for two years and a half. After successful fighting against the " Saracens," led by Sornegur, king of Denmark, he returned to the castle, armed with an enchanted lantern which broke the spell. The consequent misfortunes have a happy termination. The tale had a continuation giving the adventures of Fursin or Anselet, the nephew of Sornegur. The name of Partonopeus or Partonopex is generally assumed to be a corruption of Parthenopaeus, one of the seven against
Thebes. It has been suggested that the word might be derived from Partenay, a supposition coloured by the points of similarity between this story and the legend of Melusine (see JEAN D'
ARRAS
 ) attached to the
house
  of Lusignan, as the lords of these two places were connected.
BIBLIoGn,gPHY.The French romance was edited by G. A. Crape-let, with an introduction by A. C. M. Robert, as Partonopeus de Blois (2 vols., 1834) ; an English Partonope of Blois, by W. E. Buckley for the Roxburghe Club (London, 1862), and another fragment for the same learned society in 1873; the German Partonopier and Melior of Konrad von Wurzburg by K. Bartsch (Vienna, 1871); the Icelandic Partaldpa saga by O. Klockhoff in
Upsala
  Universitets Arsskrift for 1887. See also H. L. Ward, Catalogue of Romances, (i. 689, &c.) ; E. Kolbing, Die verschiedenen Gestaltungen der Partonopeus-Sage, in German.
Stud
 . (vol. ii., Vienna, 1875), in which the Icelandic version is compared with the Danish poem Persenober and the Spanish
prose
  Iiistoria del
conde
  Partinobles; E. Pfeiffer, " Ober die HSS des Part. de Blois " in Stengel's Ausg. in Abh. vom Phil. (No. 25, Marburg, 1885).


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