Sir Marrok a Tale of the Days of King Arthur

Older than the Lay was the Chronicle of Sir Marrok, written by the Abbot John, and read only by the clerkly. But the unlettered people learned the story from the mouths of minstrels singing the Lay; and all we know of it is also from the Lay, for the Chronicle is lost. Such of the story as has come down to us, with many gaps and breaks, is written here. In the old, old days, when the religion of the gentle Christ was still young in the land of Britain, and the love of God had not everywhere come