![]() ![]() However, as he gets closer, Milun recognizes the ring on the young man's finger and realizes that this is his long-lost son. He knocks off Milun's helmet, and realizing that he is fighting an older gentleman, he approaches him to pay his respects. Eventually, the father and son meet in battle, where the son is victorious. Hearing tales of this valiant knight, Milun also decides to attend the tournament, completely unaware that it is his son. The young man grows into a powerful knight, whose renown spreads throughout the kingdom, and one day he decides to attend a tournament at the Mont Saint-Michel. This continues for many years, while their son grows up in the home of his aunt. Unwilling to break contact, however, Milun sends messages to his lover by sending a swan with letters hidden in its feathers. Not knowing her love for Milun, the woman's father marries her off to another man. ![]() Once the child is born, she has him sent away to her sister in Northumbria along with precious silk, a ring, and a letter. The noblewoman fears for her reputation because they are not married. They begin a secret affair and soon conceive a child. Milun, a knight without equal who lives in southern Wales, falls in love with a beautiful noblewoman (a baron's daughter). Like the other lais (lays) in this collection, Milun is written in the Anglo-Norman dialect of Old French, in couplets of eight syllables in length. Milun is the ninth lai in the collection known as the Lais of Marie de France. " Milun" is a Breton lai by the medieval poet Marie de France, ( fl. ![]()
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