Chapter II

[1] MS. Bibl. Nat., f. Franç. 12576 fo. 90.

[2] _Ibid_. fo. 90_vo_, 91.

[3] _Diû Crône_ (ed. Stoll, Stuttgart, 1852). Cf. _Sir Gawain of the Grail Castle_ for both versions.

[4] Cf. MS. B.N. 12576, fo. 154.

[5] _Perceval_, ed. Hucher, p. 466; Modena, p. 61.

[6] Cf. Hucher, p. 482; Modena, p. 82.

[7] _Perceval li Gallois_, ed. Potvin, ll. 6048-52.

[8] _Ib_. ll. 6056-60.

[9] Potvin, Vol. I. p. 15.

[10] _Ib_. p. 26.

[11] _Ib_. p. 86.

[12] _Ib_. pp. 176, 178.

[13] MS. B.N. 12576, ff. 221-222vo.

[14] _Mabinogion_, ed. Nutt, p. 282.

[15] Cf. _Peredur_ (ed. Nutt), pp. 282, 291-92.

[16] _Parzival_, Book v. ll. 947-50.

[17] _Ib_. Book VI. ll. 1078-80.

[18] _Parzival_, Book XVI, ll 275-86.

[19] Cf. _Morte Arthure_, Malory, Book XVII. Chap. 18. Note the remark of Mordrains that his flesh which has waxen old shall become young again.

[20] _Parzival_, Bk. IX. ll. 1388-92.

[21] _Sone de Nansai_ (ed. Goldschmidt, Stuttgart, 1899), ll 4775-76.

[22] _Sone de Nansai_, ll. 4841-56.

[23] It is evidently such a version as that of _Sone de Nansai_, and _Parzival_, which underlies the curious statement of the _Merlin_ MS. B.N. f. Fr. 337, where the wife of the Fisher King is known as ‘la Veve Dame,’ while her husband is yet in life, though sorely wounded.