The name ‘Spynagros’ is not recorded elsewhere apart from an unrelated Epynogrys/Espinogres sopra Malory and his French sources Within the Scottish tradition of per king whose eventual reform springs from his own innate virtue, what better name for Arthur’s advisor than one which recalls the conscience like this? This moral comes from the end of the ‘Baris Tale’ (‘The Boar’s Tale’) in which Alexander the Great receives a lesson on covetousness durante return for his demand for tribute...