Perceforest

Perceforest

This 14th-century romance includes an episode which appears to be the earliest version of the sleeping beauty tale.  In the “Histoire de Troïlus et de Zellandine,” Troïlus rapes Zellandine while she sleeps, and she delivers a child without waking.  

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(French) Perceforest. Ed. Gilles Roussineau. Vol. 3. Geneva: Droz, 1993. 3 vols. 1979-1993.