Melion and Biclarel are two redactions of a werwolf tale which occurs in several French versions in the high Middle Ages. These include Marie de France's Bisclavret, written in the 1160s or 1170s, of which Biclarel is a reworking. Melion, a Breton lay like Marie’s narrative, has close parallels with Bisclavret, but significant alterations in plot and tone suggest the working of other influences. ... Biclarel is an extract from the first redaction (A-text) of Le Roman de Renart le Contrefait, a text of some 32,000 lines, preserved in MS Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, fr. 1630, anc. 76304, de la Mare 284; Biclarel appears in f.188 col. a – f.190, col. d. Displaying characteristics of the Champenois dialect, the manuscript dates from the first third of the fourteenth century. - [Author]

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