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PARTONOPEUS DE BLOIS , hero of romance. The French romance of Partonopeus de Blois dates
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 againstThebes. 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
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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
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conde Partinobles; E. Pfeiffer, " Ober die HSS des Part. de Blois " in Stengel's Ausg. in Abh. vom Phil. (No. 25, Marburg, 1885).End of Article: PARTONOPEUS DE BLOIS If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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