Crossword-Solution: NANN 4 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 4

More than one of our Scottish ballads are reminiscent of the beautiful old Breton lay, _The Lord Nann_, so admirably translated by Tom Taylor, wherein the young husband, stricken to the heart by the baleful kiss given to him against his will by a wood-nymph, goes home to die, and his fair young wife follows him fast to the grave.

The Seigneur of Nann seized his lance and, vaulting on his jet-black steed, sought the borders of the forest, where he halted to survey the ground for track of roe or slot of the red deer.

She asks her mother-in-law who has died, and the old woman at last confesses that the Seigneur of Nann has just been buried.

Disguised as a young student, Merlin was wandering one bright May morning through the leafy glades of Broceliande, when, like the Seigneur of Nann, he came to a beautiful fountain in the heart of the forest which tempted him to rest.

When the ambassador reached Arles, Nann, the king, was giving a great feast to his warriors, from among whom his daughter Gyptis was that day to choose a husband.