étude De Marché Lays

confront social convention or encounter marvels and magic. Instead of following custom and translating Latin texts, she drew on an oral tradition: the tales of love and adventure sung by Bretons which originated in ancient Celtic sources. Some of Marie’s lays, like ‘Lanval’, are related to the Arthur story while ‘Chèvrefoil’ is part of the legend of Tristan and Iseut which evolved out of earlier Irish and Welsh tales. A story of tragic love which transgresses social and moral conventions, it was first told