Maleperduis

Maleperduis

Maleperduis (play /ˌmælɨˈpɜrdjuː.ɨs/; French: Maupertuis; German: Malepartus; Dutch: Maupertuus; Middle English: Maleperduys), also spelled Malperdy, is Reynard the Fox's principal hideaway in the medieval tales of this figure of legend.

Labyrinthine Maleperduys is full of holes, crooked and long, with multiple exits, which Reynard can open and shut to elude his enemies. Full of secret chambers and passageways, in William Caxton's The Historie of Reynart the Foxe (1485) the castle of Maleperduys is described as the "best and the fastest burgh that [Reynart] had. There lay he in when he had need, and was in any dread or fear." (Chapter VII, How Bruin the Bear was sped of Reynart the Fox).

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Reynard cycle
Ysengrimus (c. 1150) · La Roman de Renart (1175) · Del cok e del gupil (12th c.) · Reinhard Fuchs (1180) · Van den vos Reynaerde (13th c.) · The Nun's Priest's Tale (1392) · The Morall Fabillis (c. 1480) · The Historie of Reynard the Foxe (1481) · Reinke de Vos (1498)
Adaptations
Reynard the Fox (1844) · Rénert the Fox (1872) · The Tale of the Fox (1937) · Van den vos Reynaerde (1937) · Van den vos Reynaerde (1943 film)
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