All of his men feed and guard it, and Bisclavret even sleeps each knight amongst the knights. The king orders it protected, and the wolf loves the king in turn.
The king brings the wolf back to his castle, where the wolf becomes a favorite amongst all. Though frightened, the king is equally impressed with the obvious intelligence and humility in the creature, and calls off the hunt. However, Bisclavret, instead of fighting, rushes to the king and begs for mercy by kissing the lord's feet. The hunting dogs come across the werewolf and the hunters spend their day in pursuit of him, until they are upon him and about to kill him. The lady marries the knight, Bisclavret's friends search for him a while, but when he is not found, all are forced to move on.Ī year passes, until one day when the king is out hunting in the forest where Bisclavret disappeared. The knight agrees, and Bisclavret is seen no more. She offers her "love and body" if he will steal Bisclavret's clothing. Marie then reveals the wife's true feelings – she is disgusted and no longer "wished to lie with him." She begins to plot how to rid herself of the burden, and to that end contacts a knight who had always wanted her as a lover, but whose advances she had repudiated. Without his clothes, he would "remain a werewolf forever." He doesn't want to tell her where he hides his clothes, but when she insists he reveals his hiding place in a hollow rock next to an old chapel deep in the woods. Though she lets on no sign of concern, she immediately begins to question him, learning in the process that he must unclothe himself to turn and that he must hide his clothing in order to facilitate his transformation back to man. She perseveres with her question, and ultimately convinces him to reveal the truth: each week, he becomes a werewolf. However, when she poses her question about his disappearance (most frightened he might reveal the existence of another lover), he falters and asks her to withdraw the query, since the answer meant "great harm would come to and shall lose love and destroy.
She tells him she has a question that she fears to ask, and he promises to tell her anything she would know. Finally, she is driven to confront him on one of his returns.
He lives with his beautiful and loving wife, and all is well between them except for one thing: each week, the baron disappears for three days, and nobody knows where he goes. She begins her tale by introducing a noble and handsome baron (Bisclavret) who is loved by all in his home realm of Brittany. She speaks of the werewolf curse as something that "often used to happen." Marie informs us she would be remiss to omit the lay of Bisclavret, a werewolf from the old days of Brittany.
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