Now the story says that when King Rion’s messenger left King Arthur, King Arthur stayed seated at his meal and took solace in festivity and rejoicing. And the harper went from one row to the next and played soothingly to everyone, and they all looked at him in wonder because they had never heard such harp-playing. And they found greater delight in the harper’s playing than in anything the other minstrels did. And King Arthur himself wondered where such a man could have come from. Yet he ought to have known him well, for he had seen him many times in another shape or another likeness.

Vulgate Merlin