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home to Constantinople and said thus, that no Christian Al
12 had probably reoeived as shameful a death as Partalopi.
This news came to Marmoria. She spoke with grief: “I thought
for a while I had entered into happiness with Partalopi,
15 but now I inherited from him grief and woe and long sor-
row.” She lamented in many ways and tore off her olothes
and put earth on her head and spoke: “Listen, you most
18 evil Hel, why are you so wrong in your judgment, that you
took from me all my possessions and all my happiness ? Woe
to you—such an unjust one—that I must survive [himj, if
21 you do not take me quickly.” After that she prayed a long
time to God that her heart might burst when she lay tor-
mented in this grief, and [she] fell often unconscious. As
24 soon as she recovered her senses, then blood sprang both
from her nose and mouth. Now her knights came and asked
her to forget her sorrow and said they would give her such
»7 advice that she would lack nothing. They said that they had
summoned there all those kings who held their kingdoms
from her, dukes and earls and knights. They all came except
30 King Hlodvir. He could not come because of that sorrow
which he had in memory of his son. Now there were there
twenty-four kings and so many earls, barons, and knights
33 that one could not count them.
They held their conference for half a month. That they
had—happiness] had love and happiness A3. into happiness]
into love and happiness A2. 17-18 most—Hel] original reading
inA3: inconstant (or evil) world. 19-20 all1—one] that man who
was my happiness, and you are so unjust A3. 20-21 if—quickly]
and I ask that you take me—like him—away at once A3. 23
when—grief] -í-A3. 25 knights] council A2; people and council
A3. 26-27 and—nothing] -fA’. 28-29 those—They] the
kings, dukes, earls, and barons who were subject to her rule,
that they might give their adviee as to what would be most
expedient for her. That was according to their bidding that they
A3. 29 earls—knights] barons, earls, and other chieftains A2.
30 King Hlodvir] +of France A2>3. that] + grcat A2 •3. 32-33
twenty-four—them] twenty-three kings and a countless number
of other chieftains A3. 32 earls—knights] chieftains A2. 37
was going on in Constantinople, that the counselors of b1
Princess Marmoria now made those plans among themselves
—there in Constantinople—that she should then marry