Page 113, line 325--'_Yet, Sire, when I saw thee last_.' Cf. Book VI. p. 179, and Book XV. p. 158. Nevertheless, the other knights do not seem in any way to have held Parzival as really dishonoured; they receive and welcome him as one of their body, though he has _not_ won the Grail, nor, so far, apparently expiated his sin in failing to put the question. Page 114, line 339--'_He should eat without on the meadow_.' Cf. Book V. p. 154. Page 115, line 402--'_Did women with wealth o'erburdened_,' _etc._ That gifts of armour and warlike trappings were usual on the part of the lady is evident from many passages, cf. Book II. p. 47 and Book XV. pp. 139, 147, 155. Page 117, line 460--'_Affinamus of Clitiers_.' This knight has not been named before. The same name occurs in the list of princes overcome by Feirefis, Book XV. p. 154, but it is evidently a different individual. Bartsch suggests that the name is of Greek origin, Clitiers being derived from Clitorium. Page 117, line 467--'_Then out spake King Lot's son gaily_.' Cf. p. 110, line 225. Page 120, line 543--'_Thy sister Surdamur_.' Cf. Note to Book XII. Page 121, line 587--'_Now greeting to whom I owe greeting_.' Bartsch remarks that this love-letter and that addressed by Anflisé to Gamuret, Book II. p. 44, are specially interesting as being almost the oldest specimens of love-letters in German literature. Page 124, line 675--'_Beau-corps_.' Cf. Book VI. p. 183. From the passage on p. 114 it would seem as if Gawain had other brothers, as in most stories of the cycle he has, but Wolfram mentions none but Beau-corps. Page 129, line 830 _and seq._--'_Arthur gave maid Itonjé_.' It has been suggested that here Wolfram is indulging in sly mockery at the many weddings which, as a rule, wound up the mediæval romances. In the original tales the whole character of King Arthur and his court was far less stamped with the rigid morality we have learned to associate with them, and the somewhat indiscriminate promotion of love-affairs and marriages (cf. Book XV. p. 157) is quite in keeping with what we elsewhere read of the king. (See note to Book X. p. 204, for Mr. Nutt's remarks on the marriage of Gawain being celebrated at the Château Merveil, instead of at court.) Page 130, line 869--'_But Parzival, he bethought him_,' _etc._ It cannot be too strongly insisted upon that this presentment of Parzival as a married man, and absolutely faithful to his wife is quite peculiar to Wolfram's version of the story. Whether it is _entirely_ due to the German poet we cannot now tell, but we meet with such constant instances of Wolfram's sense of the sanctity of the marriage vow, and the superiority of lawful, over unlawful, love, it seems most probable that it is to his genius we owe this, the most beautiful feature of the story. There is nothing answering to it either in Chrêtien or his continuators, although in Gerbert the hero's successive failures are declared to be due to his forsaking Blanchefleur.