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42 of no one living whom I would know better than you [do].” a1
Urækia answered: “I tell you, that man is alive whom you
thought long since dead. That is Partalopi, your sweet-
45 heart.” Marmoria spoke: “Do not remind me of my sorrows.
That I know, that my joy will never be so great that I can
see Partalopi, because you told me he was dead.” Urækia
48 spoke: “He was sitting on that black horse yesterday, whom
all called the best knight, and he is now in iny quarters.
Now have all your chieftains called together tomorrow,
51 and find out froin them their plan.”
The following morning she had it done. When they came,
they said to her that “that knight who won the victory
54 from our knights yesterday—him we choose for you for a
husband and for us for a chieítain, if we find him.” She
asked for the king of Franee to be summoned to her, and
57 when he came to her, she seated him on the throne beside
her and asked if he knew anything of his son. He answered:
“For that reason I came here, that I knew that, if he were
60 alive, he would come here. But now I know for certain that
he is dead, because I do not see him here.” Marmoria asked
Urækia, her sister, to call her knights, those whom she had
63 in her quarters, and thus she did.
After that they came into the hall—Urækia and Parta-
better A3. 4Ö-47 That—dead] because I will never see P. alive A3.
48 He] I will tell you the truth, my sister, that P., your sweetheart
A3. 52-55 The—him] M. rejoiced now and was very much
gladdened and did now as U., her sister, bade. Now all the
chieftains said that they wanted to choose that knight for her
for a husband who won the victory yesterday over the kniglits
of those others, and this got the assent of all A3. 57-58 to—
asked] she asked A3. 64-70 After—She] When they, P. and U.,
came baek in, the king stood up to meet his son and was very
delighted with him, but M. was still much more delighted,
because she was scarcely able to contain herself with moderation
because of that great gladness which she got then in her breast
off his annor, because he did not wish to be recognized by B1
any one there within the city in Constantinople.
Now kings and many other great men came there and
now lead Prince Partalopi into the largest and greatest
hall of the emperor with all kinds of rejoicing and with