You obviously can read this on your own but I did want to point out a few things
当然你们可以自己读这本书 但我想提几点
I'm also gonna point out a few things in the introduction to the book
我还要就这本书的介绍也提几点
Whether you read the practice or not
不管你们有没有阅读练习
and what I think are particularly important
我认为最重要的是
Obviously, whenever you talk about older literature, whenever you talk about anything older
不管你们什么时候谈论旧文学 或者任何一样旧东西时
We're always talking about what we have left
我们谈论的总是过去的 我们遗留的东西
We don't know necessarily know what was there
没必要一定得知道留下的是什么
Maybe somebody wrote this material down before Chrétien in a very similar way
在克雷蒂安之前或许有人用相似的方式写下了这本书
but the fact and matter is, if somebody did we don't have it
但是事实就是 如果有人写了而我们没有资料证明
And so, he gets all the credit
那么克雷蒂安就是权威
So even if he was just some kind of great you know copy a copy cat or something
即使他只是个 你们懂的 超级模仿者
He gets the credit
那么他也是权威
And so, to make the point here and that what I was just beating on a little bit in line four that has reached us, as far as somebody who has written down the material
所以我在此强调 如我们看到的第4行所言 不管是否有人曾经写下这本书
Chrétien is the first person we have that we have records of
克雷蒂安是有资料记录的第一人
If you have read the assignment for today
如果你们看过今天的作业
You'd notice that in that material he mentioned,
就会注意到他在书中提到
It's the next one back in the research, he handed them up
这是下一个研究对象 他上交了这些材料
He kept making references to Tristan and Isolde he mentioned several times Isolde
他一直提到特里斯坦和伊索尔德 他提了很多次伊索尔德
He evidently wrote something on Mark and Isolde before he wrote Eric but we don't have it either
很明显他写埃里克之前写了些关于马克和伊索尔德的东西 但是我们也没有这些材料