'And I think me, Sir Knight, _thou_ art Lähelein? For thou gavest unto my care A steed that such token showeth as the steeds of the Grail Knights bear! 710 For the white dove I see on its housing, from Monsalväsch it surely came? Such arms did Anfortas give them while joy yet was his and fame. Their shields bare of old the token, Titurel gave it to his son Frimutel, and such shield bare that hero when his death in a joust he won. For his wife did he love so dearly no woman was loved so well 715 By man, yet in truth and honour,--and the same men of thee shall tell If thou wakenest anew old customs, and thy wife from thine heart dost love-- Hold thou fast to such fair example lest thy steps from the right path rove! And in sooth thou art wondrous like him who once o'er the Grail did reign, Say, what is thy race? whence art thou? and tell me I pray thy name!' 720 Each gazed for a space on the other, and thus quoth Parzival, 'Son am I to a king and hero who through knightly courage fell, In a joust was he slain--Now I pray thee, Sir Hermit, of this thy grace, That thou, in thy prayers henceforward, wilt give to his name a place. Know, Gamuret, did they call him, and he came from fair Anjou-- 725 Sir Host I am not Lähelein; if ever such sin I knew 'Twas in my days of folly, yet in truth have I done the same, Here I make of my guilt confession, and my sin unto thee I name, For the prince who once fell a victim unto my sinful hand Was he whom men called 'the Red Knight,' Prince Ither of Cumberland. 730 On the greensward I lifeless stretched him, and as at my feet he lay, Harness, and horse, and weapons, as my booty I bare away!'