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''De Ortu Waluuanii Nepotis Arturi'' ((英語:The Rise of Gawain, Nephew of Arthur)) is an anonymous Medieval Latin romance dating to the 12th or 13th century. An Arthurian tale, it describes the birth, boyhood deeds, and early adventures of King Arthur's nephew Gawain. The romance gives the most detailed account of Gawain's early years of any contemporary work, and is driven by the young man's quest to establish his identity. It is also notable for its early reference to Greek fire.〔 ==History== ''De Ortu Waluuanii'' survives in a single early-14th-century Medieval Latin manuscript believed to be a copy of an earlier work. J. D. Bruce and Roger Sherman Loomis suggested that the romance dates to the 13th century, though details of costume and ship construction suggest an earlier date.〔 However, it was written after Geoffrey of Monmouth's ''Historia Regum Britanniae'' of the mid-12th century, as it borrows passages and plots from that work.〔 Catalog tradition, as recorded by John Bale, lists the author as Robert of Torigny, abbot of Mont Saint-Michel from 1154 to 1186. However, no other evidence supports this assertion, though the real author must have been an educated man and was likely a cleric.〔 The author composed another Latin romance, the ''Historia Meriadoci'' or ''The Story of Meriadoc''. While the primary basis for John Bale's suggestion that Robert of Torigni might have been the author of these two romances was the signature of the author—a single letter "R"—Peter Larkin has suggested several reasons why the anonymous author was more likely to have been Ranulf Higden.〔Larkin, Peter, A Suggested Author for "De ortu Waluuanii" and "Historia Meriadoci": Ranulph Higden, ''The Journal of English and Germanic Philology'', Vol. 103, No. 2 (April 2004), pp. 215-231〕 Higden, an early fourteenth century monk and chronicler, is chronologically far more plausible a candidate and also he was known to sign his works with a single letter "R" while Robert of Torigni was not.〔
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