2. PAGE 20.--_Gawain as physician_. The representation of Gawain as an expert in medical skill is an interesting feature which appears to belong to early tradition. The references in the poem before us are the most copious and explicit, but we also find the same accomplishment referred to in the romance of _Lancelot et le cerf au pied blanc_ (D. L. vol. ii. 1. 22825) where Gawain instructs the physician as to the proper treatment of Lancelot's wounds; and the _Parzival_ of Wolfram von Eschenbach (Book X. 1. 104) also refers to this tradition. It is noticeable that Chrétien de Troyes in the parallel passage of his poem has no such allusion, nor can I recall any passage in the works of that poet which indicates any knowledge, on his part, of this characteristic of Gawain. This is one of the points of variance between Chrétien and Wolfram which, slight in itself, offers when examined valuable evidence as to a difference of sources. 3. PAGE 24.--_The boast of Sir Kay._ Arthur's reproof to Kay is a reference to the well-known adventure related both by Chrétien and Wolfram and found moreover in the _Peredur_. The hero, thrown into a love-trance by the sight of blood-drops on the snow, gives no answer to the challenge addressed to him successively by Segramore and Kay, and being rudely attacked by these knights overthrows them both. The allusion to this incident, which is not related in the prose _Lancelot_, shows clearly that while, on the whole, he is harmonising his romance with the indications of the later traditions, the writer is yet quite conversant with the earlier forms. 4. PAGE 26.--_The Father of Adventure._ "Der Aventuren Fader." The Middle English poem of _Sir Gawain and the Green Knight_ (No. 1 of this Series) speaks of the knight in somewhat similar terms as "the fine father of courtesy." Gawain was from the first the adventurous hero, _par excellence_ of the cycle, but I know no other instance in which this characteristic is so quaintly and forcibly expressed. 5. PAGE 28.--_In secret case_. The original words are "in hemeliker stede." To which particular adventure of Lancelot this refers it is not easy to decide; on more than one occasion he disappears from court, and the knights headed by Gawain, ride in quest of him. Perhaps this refers to his imprisonment by Morgain le Fay (_cf_. summary of _D.L._ in _Legend of Sir Lancelot du Lac_. Grimm's Library XII. pp. 236-7). 6. PAGE 35.--_Sir Agloval, he is my father._ This should be compared with the account of Gamuret's wooing and desertion of the Moorish queen, Belakane, in Book I. of the _Parzival_; also with the meeting of the unknown brothers in Book XV. of the same poem. It is perhaps worth noticing as indicative of the source of the tradition that Wolfram distinctly states that his Moor speaks in _French_.