Chapter XIII

[1] MS B.N. 12576, ff. 87_vo et seq_. A translation will be found in my _Sir Gawain at the Grail Castle_, pp. 13-15.

[2] MS B.N. 12576, ff. 150_vo_, 222, 238_vo_.

[3] Cf. here Prof. Kittredge’s monograph _Arthur and Gorlagon_.

[4] Cf. Malory, Book XVI. Chap. 2.

[5] Cf. _Perlesvaus_, Branch XV. sections XII.-XX.; Malory, Book VI. Chap. 15; _Chevalier à deux Espées_, ll. 531 _et seq_.

[6] B.N. 12576, fo. 74_vo_.

[7] Cf. B.N. MS 1433, ff. 10, 11, and the analysis and remarks in my _Legend of Sir Lancelot_, p. 219 and note.

[8] Cf. passage in question quoted on p. 137.

[9] B.N. 12576, fo. 150_vo_.

[10] _Perlesvaus_, Branch I. sections III., IV.

[11] Cf. my notes on the subject, _Romania_, Vol. XLIII. pp. 420-426.

[12] Cf. Nitze, _Glastonbury and the Holy Grail_, where the reference is given.

[13] _Vide supra_, p. 147.

[14] Cf. _Legend of Sir Perceval_, Vol. II. p. 261. I suggested then that the actual initiation would probably consist in enlightenment into the meaning of Lance and Cup, in their sexual juxtaposition. I would now go a step further, and suggest that the identification of the Lance with the weapon of Longinus may quite well have rpelaced the original explanation as given by Bleheris. In _The Quest_, Oct. 1916, I have given, under the title “The Ruined Temple,” a hypothetical reconstruction of the Grail Initiation.

[15] _Owain Miles_, edited from the unique MS. by Turnbull and Laing, Edinburgh, 1837. _The Purgatory of Saint Patrick_ will be found in Horstmann’s Southern Legendary. I have given a modern English rendering of part of _Owain Miles_ in my _Chief Middle-English Poets_, published by Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, U.S.A.

[16] Cf. _op. cit_. pp. 148 _et seq_.

[17] _Op. cit_. pp. 155 and 254.