177. _oure one_, 'by ourselves'. To _one_ 'alone' in early ME. the dative pronoun was added for emphasis, _him one_, _us one_, &c. Later and more rarely the possessive pronoun is found, as here. _Al(l)_ was also used to strengthen _one_; so that there are six possible ME. types: (1) _one_, e.g. ll. 6, 50; (2) _him one_; (3) _his one_; (4) _al one_ = _alone_ l. 87; (5) _al him one_, or _him al one_; (6) _al his one_, or _his al one_. 181. _at a wap one_, 'at a single blow'. 183. 'I shall grudge you no good-will because of any harm that befalls me.' 189-90. 'And acted as if he feared nothing: he would not tremble (_dare_) with terror.' 196. 'He (Gawayn) who was ever valiant would have been dead from his blow there.' 200. It must not be supposed that the chief incidents of _Sir Gawayne_ were invented by the English poet. The three strokes, for example, two of them mere feints and the third harmless, can be shown to derive from the lost French source, which has Irish analogues. See pp. 71-4 of _A Study of Gawain and the Green Knight_ (London 1916), by Professor Kittredge, a safe guide in the difficult borderland of folklore and romance. 207. 'Nor did I raise any quibble in the house of King Arthur.' On _kyngeȝ hous Arthor_ see note to II 518. 222. _ryueȝ_: the likeness of _n_ and _u_ in MSS. of the time makes it impossible to say whether the verb is _riue_ 'to cleave', which is supported by l. 278, or _rine_, OE. _hrīnan_, 'to touch'. 230. 'And look out for your neck at this stroke, <to see> if it may survive.' 233. _I hope_: here, and often in ME., _hope_ means 'believe', 'expect'. 250. Gawayn appears to have carried his shield on his back. By a movement of his shoulders he lets it fall in front of him, so that he can use it in defence. 258. _foo_, 'fiercely', adv. parallel with _ȝederly_. 269. _ry<n>kande_, 'ringing'; Napier's suggestion for MS. _rykande_. 271-2. 'Nobody here has ill-treated you in an unmannerly way, nor shown you <discourtesy>': the object of _kyd_ being understood from _vnmanerly mysboden_. _habbeȝ_ for MS. _habbe_ is Napier's reading. 278-9. 'And cleft you with no grievous wound, <which> I rightly <merely> proffered you, because of the compact we made fast', &c. It is better to assume a suppression of the relative, than to put a strong stop after _rof_ and treat _sore_ as sb. object of _profered_. This latter punctuation gives _sore_ the chief stress in the line, and breaks the alliteration and rhythm, which is correct as long as _sore_ is taken with _rof_, so that its stress is subordinated. 286-7. 'Let a true man truly repay—then one need dread no peril.' 291. _weued_: perhaps not a weak pa. t. of _weave-woven_, but rather means 'to give', from OE. _wǣfan_, 'to move'; _weue_ in this sense occurs in _Gawayne_ l. 1976.