Although Brugger had already expressed this idea, it was because of Bedier's work that academics began to see Tristanian poems as unified literary works with a coherent narrative thread from the lovers' first meeting to their inevitable death:

a flight of swallows

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Lord love a duck! he observed in a dazed voice — What's this?