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Marrok Malory briefly mentions a Sir Marrok at the healing of
Sir Urry,
who was betrayed by his wife and spent seven years as a werewolf."
This line seems to refer to the a tale similar to the lai "Bisclavret"
by Marie de France, whose hero was cursed to assume the form of a wolf for
three days each month -- and worse, if he could not find his clothes at
the end of the three days, then he had to remain in wolf form
indefinitely.
Marrok may be the same character as in the oldest Irish
Arthurian romance which has a 'werewolf' as leading character: Eachtra
an Mhadra Mhaoil. The edition and translation by Macalister was
published in 1907 in the Early Irish Texts Society
series no. X. It was reprinted a few years ago with a new introduction
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