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Melion

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An Old French lay, written in the Picard dialect, about a knight called Melion who transforms into a werewolf for the sake of his wife, daughter of the king of Ireland, but is then betrayed by her as she elopes with a squire.

Manuscript witnesses

Text
Paris, Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, MS 3516 
ff. 343ra–344rd  
Text
Turin, Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria, MS L IV 4 5 (lost) 
Manuscript destroyed by fire.
ff. 60ra–63ra  

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