“King Arthur and King Cornwall”
Description
King Arthur, disguised, goes to King Cornwall's castle, where Cornwall boasts how he is better than Arthur.
Notes
This ballad is known only from the Percy manuscript. Since the manuscript is heavily damaged, the detailed course of the ballad cannot be discerned. Child connects the ballad with the (twelfth century) romance of Charlemagne's visit to Jerusalem. - RBW
References
- Child 30, "King Arthur and King Cornwall" (1 text)
- OBB 18, "King Arthur and King Cornwall (A Fragment)" (1 text)
- Roud #3965
- BI, C030