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Urre
Sir Urre, one of the knights of the Round Table. Being wounded, the king and his chief knights tried on him the effect of “handling the wounds” (i.e. touching them to heal them), but failed. At last, sir Launcelot was invited to try, and as he touched the wounds they severally healed.
THEN as the French book maketh mention, there was a good
knight in the land of Hungary, his name was Sir Urre, and he was
an adventurous knight, and in all places where he might hear of
any deeds of worship there would he be.
Le
Morte d'Arthur By Sir Thomas Malory. Book
XIX
In the old Celtic romances a similar gift is ascribed to Finn
(Fingal). Thus, in The Pursuit of Grania, Finn refuses, through
love-jealousy, to convey water in the closed palms of his two
hands to the dying Dermat O’Dyna, wounded in the chase,
though urged thereto by the assembled heroes.
The
High Deeds of Finn and other Bardic Romances of Ancient
Ireland By T. W. Rolleston
