Talk:truage
Latest comment: 5 years ago by Widsith in topic Quote
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[edit]The word appears in Mallory's La Morte d'Arthur several times, for instance in Chapter 23 from the Project Gutenberg version:
"Right so came into the court twelve knights, and were aged men, and they came from the Emperor of Rome, and they asked of Arthur truage for this realm, other else the emperor would destroy him and his land."
Or Book 5 Chapter 1:
"The high and mighty Emperor Lucius sendeth to the King of Britain greeting, commanding thee to acknowledge him for thy lord, and to send him the truage due of this realm unto the Empire"
Would either of these (or any of several others) do for the quote? Jrumbut (talk) 03:26, 5 June 2019 (UTC)
- Problem is that these are modernised translations. They're both OK, but just make sure you date them properly and attribute the translator, since that's not how Malory wrote. Ƿidsiþ 07:48, 5 June 2019 (UTC)