I was today years old when I learned that there was a Yiddish Arthurian tradition at the end of the 1700s, during Rebbe Schneur Zalman of Lyady's life.
The paper on it is here with an English translation.
https://www.pdx.edu/judaic-studies/sites/judaicstudies.web.wdt.pdx.edu/files/2021-03/OehmeArthuriana30.2.pdf
The book referenced is on Internet Archive (natch)
Belehrung der Jüdisch-Teutschen Red- und Schreibart
Eyn Shon Meyse starts on page 251 (Adobe page), page 157 of the print edition, in side by side Yiddish and German.
I was writing about something quite different and my brain jumped sideways and I followed it with a google search. Always follow where your brain leaps to.
The Internet is like a box of chocolates....
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