(2)以下资料英文部分来自英文维基百科“Alliterative Morte Arthure”词条,中文部分为自己翻译。
The Alliterative Morte Arthure is a 4346-line Middle English alliterative poem, retelling the latter part of the legend of King Arthur. Dating from about 1400, it is preserved in a single copy, in the early fifteenth-century Lincoln Thornton Manuscript.
《Alliterative Morte Arthure》是一篇4346行的韵文,由中世纪英语写成,描述亚瑟王传奇的后半部分。它的历史可追溯至大约公元1400年,保存在十五世纪早期Lincoln Thornton的手抄本中。
Arthur also has two legendary swords, the first being Excalibur (referred to as Caliburn, an earlier name of the sword), and the second one being Clarent, a formal sword, stolen by the evil Mordred, with which Arthur receives his fatal blow close to the banks of the Tamar.
(在《Alliterative Morte Arthure》一书中)亚瑟也有两把具有传奇色彩的剑,第一把是Excalibur(更早的名字是Caliburn);而另一把是Clarent,正式的剑,被邪恶的莫德雷德偷走,最终亚瑟在Tamar的岸边上受到了来自此剑的致命一击。