CHAPTER V
OTHER MATERIAL FROM GUY OF WARWICK
But let us now return to the English romance, for
it contains other features that have been reproduced or
at least utilized in the composition of the Catalan book
of chivalry. The Auchinleck MS. contains a kind of
sequel to Guy of Warwick, which bears the title, Reinbrun,
Gij sone of Warwicke. In this sequel we are
told that Reinbrun was stolen by foreign merchants.
Heraud, the faithful companion of Guy before the latter's
pilgrimage, went in search of the lad, and while he was
on his way to Constantinople a tempest drove to the
shores of Africa the ship on which he was making the
voyage. There the Saracens seized him and brought
him before Emir Persan, who ordered him to be thrown
into prison. In a doleful lament Heraud spoke of himself
as a doughty knight, and this was overheard by a
keeper, who reported it to the emir. Now it happened
that at that very time King Argus was making war upon
Persan, and had captured all his possessions except the
very city in which Heraud was held a prisoner. The
emir sent for Heraud and asked him to assist in the defense
of the city. His request was granted, and in the
first battle with the enemy he fought so skillfully and so
valiantly that Persan rewarded him by making him his
steward.
The reader will readily see the striking resemblance between this incident and that part of the analysis which deals with the shipwreck of Tirant on the shores of Barbary. Tirant, like Heraud, was driven by a tempest to the hostile shores of Africa, cast into prison, released
