In this part the story says that after Gawainet and his companions had taken on Taurus in battle, and Merlin saw that Gawainet had rescued his mother, Merlin left so fast that they did not know what had happened to him. He went into Northumberland, to Blaise his master, and he told him all the adventures that had happened in the kingdom of Logres, and Blaise wrote it all down; and thanks to his book, we still know it And when he had stayed there as long as he wanted, he said that he wished to go off to the kingdom of Benoic, for the two kings might have trouble there, “King Ban and King Bors, who are in Carmelide, and it would be a deadly sin, for they are both very worthy men. For King Claudas of the Land Laid Waste has sworn faith to the king of Gaul and has given his land over to him. And King Claudas has provided for himself in other ways as well, for he has gone to Rome, and both he and the king of Gaul have sworn faith to the Emperor and become his vassals. The emperor Julius Caesar has sworn to send them help, for he wishes to seize the two kingdoms of Gaunes and Benoic. So they have got together and sent for men far and wide, and the Romans have already moved out in a great
army. The leader is Pontius Anthony, a senator of Rome who is very wealthy and powerful. For love of them, Frollo, emperor of Germany, is coming back there. He is a man of very high standing, powerful in lands, holdings, and friends, and he is Pontius Anthony’s first cousin. He is leading twenty thousand men under his banner. And the people of the kingdom of Benoic know nothing about this. They would be utterly destroyed before they knew it, and it would be a very bad thing if they did not find out, for great harm would come from it.”

Vulgate Merlin