{"id":14517,"date":"2021-10-18T17:01:26","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T17:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/?page_id=14517"},"modified":"2022-12-03T22:12:07","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T22:12:07","slug":"erec-et-enide-geographie","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/breton-mythology\/erec-et-enide-geography\/","title":{"rendered":"Erec and Enide: geography of history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/breton-mythology\/\" role=\"button\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tBreton mythology<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/fr.wikisource.org\/wiki\/%C3%89rec_et_%C3%89nide\" role=\"button\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tWiki<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the study of this text, Erec and Enide, we will use the edition of Jean-Marie Fritz, according to the manuscript BN. En 1376, The <a href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/book-libraries\/\">book<\/a> de Poche, \u201cGothic Letters\u201d No. 4526, 1992. Here is the sixth part of the study: Geography of the story.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/cropped-AlphaOmega-e1602613368367.png\" alt=\"erec and enide Geography of the story\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseprofile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/breton-mythology\/erec-et-enide-geography\/#Geographie-du-recit\" >Geography of the story<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/breton-mythology\/erec-et-enide-geography\/#Un-trajet-un-voyage\" >A journey, a journey<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/breton-mythology\/erec-et-enide-geography\/#Des-lieux-stereotypes\" >Stereotypical places<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/breton-mythology\/erec-et-enide-geography\/#Juxtaposition-du-reel-et-de-limaginaire\" >Juxtaposition of the real and the imaginary<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Geographie-du-recit\"><\/span>Geography of the story<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The individual adventure becomes, in the novels of chivalry, the dominant characteristic of the knight - as opposed to the collective adventure of the songs of gesture. It will take, precisely from our novel, the form of wandering. Thus, v. 2761-2763, we are told:<\/p>\n<p><cite>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Departi are at some point<br \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Erec goes away, his famine in the least<br \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0do not know which part, on an adventure<\/cite><\/p>\n<p>In reality, his &quot;journey&quot; takes the form of a series of round trips, the point of departure and arrival of which is the court of King Arthur, a place which is moreover not fixed, since the Court itself is located. moved continuously.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Un-trajet-un-voyage\"><\/span>A journey, a journey<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Starting point: King Arthur&#039;s court in Caradigan, and the surrounding forest<\/li>\n<li>Laluth, where \u00c9rec defeats Ydier and wins the hawk<\/li>\n<li>Return to King Arthur<\/li>\n<li>Danebroc, the tournament<\/li>\n<li>Carrant, place of &quot;recreation&quot;<\/li>\n<li>The forest<\/li>\n<li>Count Galoain&#039;s castle<\/li>\n<li>Guivret castle<\/li>\n<li>The forest (meeting Arthur&#039;s court, then the Giants)<\/li>\n<li>The castle of the count of Limors<\/li>\n<li>P\u00e9nuris, Guivret castle<\/li>\n<li>Brandigan, the joy of the court<\/li>\n<li>Return to Arthur&#039;s Court<\/li>\n<li>Nantes, place of the coronation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The toponyms are more numerous in this novel than in all those which will follow; there are about 68 of them. But most of these names do not correspond to an actual location; the men of the Middle Ages were hardly interested in geography. Thus, the toponyms of Brandigan, Laluth, Limors do not have a referent in reality.<\/p>\n<p>Other names can be identified: Caradigan is possibly Cardigan, au <a href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/welsh-mythology\/\">Wales<\/a>, Danebroc would be Edinburgh, and of course Nantes.<\/p>\n<p>But most of the names cited, especially in the enumerations, are purely imaginary. We have the impression of a great unreality, since Erec ends up in Great Britain without ever mentioning a boat crossing!<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Des-lieux-stereotypes\"><\/span>Stereotypical places<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>It will be necessary to wait until the end of the XVIII<sup>th<\/sup> century so that the landscape begins to take on its own value; before it was only a decoration. And here the places are just mentioned, never described. They only have one function. The forest is the place of all bad encounters, dwarves, pillaging knights\u2026 The moor, a Breton reality, resembles it: it is there that Erec meets the Giants. The castle, finally, is the place of sociability (for the banquet and the tournament), where the hero must show his courtesy and his valor.<\/p>\n<p>But these places are extremely general and undifferentiated; they are just stereotypes. Only two places are described with precision, and they are moreover related: the marvelous orchard (v. 5727-5778) and the castle of Brandigan which is contiguous to it (v. 5381-5407). But these are very special places, those of the ultimate test.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Juxtaposition-du-reel-et-de-limaginaire\"><\/span>Juxtaposition of the real and the imaginary<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>The most glaring example is that of Brandigan: next to King Evrain&#039;s castle, presented as belonging to reality, is the marvelous orchard, with no solution of continuity. The Other World is therefore present, closely intertwined with ours.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breton Mythology Wiki For the study of this text, Erec and Enide, we will use the edition of Jean-Marie Fritz, according to the manuscript \u2026 <\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":96,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-14517","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25232,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14517\/revisions\/25232"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}