Page 64, line 471--'_True as the one-horned marvel_.' Cf. Book IX. p. 277, where the story of the Unicorn's love for a pure maiden is given. We learn from this passage that advantage was taken of its slumber to slay it. Page 65, line 511--'_For the winning his death_.' Here we have a full explanation of the connection between Orgelusé and Anfortas. The tent given to the Lady of Logrois by Anfortas was, we learn from the _Willehalm_ (which abounds in allusions to the _Parzival_), sent to that monarch by Queen Sekundillé as a love-token. Page 66, line 547--'_And never a man beheld me_.' This account of Orgelusé's bargain with the knights who fought for her, and her relations with Parzival and Gawain, throws a most curious light on the conventionalities of the day. It is quite evident that Orgelusé in no way transgressed against the code of manners then prevailing, she is throughout treated as a great lady, and is well received at Court. Though this is the only episode of the kind recounted, it is quite clear from Books XIV. pp. 130-131 and XVI. 173 that Orgelusé was not the only lady who had proffered her love to Parzival and been refused. (Those familiar with Wagner's _Parzival_ will not need to have it pointed out to them what fine dramatic use he has made of the fact that it is Anfortas' love, and the indirect cause of his wound, who thus offers herself to Parzival. With wonderful skill Wagner has combined the characters of Kondrie and Orgelusé, thereby, in some ways, assimilating Kondrie more closely to the original form of the legend.) Page 69, line 625--'_The Swallow_.' Bartsch says that this was an English harp, so called from the fact that the lower part of the frame was shaped like the fork of a swallow's tail. Page 69, line 639--'_The Buhurd_.' Cf. Book II. Note on '_The Tourney_.' There is no trace of this formal knightly reception in Chrêtien,--there the old queen receives them seated outside the castle, and the maidens dance and sing around them. BOOK XIII TRADITIONAL EVENTS Feast at the Château Merveil; Chrêtien, whose poem ends abruptly Gawain persuades his sister to in the middle of a line. confide her love-story to him. Arrival of Gawain's messenger at the Court of King Arthur. (From this point onwards there is no resemblance between Wolfram's poem and any other known Romance of the Grail-cycle.) Page 74, line 39--'_One lived of yore named Sarant_.' Cf. note to Book I. '_Silk of Orient_.' Bartsch identifies the name of the skilful weaver with that of an Asiatic people, probably the Chinese. Thasmé is named later on as part of Feirefis' kingdom. His battle-cry is 'Tabronit and Thasmé!' '_Akraton_,' cf. Book VIII. p. 230.