There are several variations in the names contained in the two versions. Thus we find «Ballant» in «C» for «Laban» in «S»; «Fyer»a«bras» in «C» for «Fe»rum«bras» in «S»; «Garin», «C» 55/3 = «Generyse», «S» 1135; «Amyotte», «C» 176/26 = «Barrokk», «S» 1135, &c. The game of blowing a coal is told with more details in «S» 1998, and somewhat differently from «C» 118/24; the incident of Laban’s seizing the image of Mahound and smashing it, which is related in «S» 2507, is omitted in «C», &c. Looking back now to our investigation concerning the original of the «Sowdan», we sum up what results from it, in the following «resumé»: Most probably the «Destruction de Rome» is the original of the first part of the «Sowdan». As to the second part, we are unable to identify it with any of the extant versions. The French «Fierabras», as edited by MM. Krœber and Servois, is not the original, but the differences between the two poems are not significant; apparently a version similar to the Hanover MS. may be thought to be the original. The «Sowdan» is no translation, but a free reproduction of its originals; the author of the «Sowdan» following his sources only as far as concerns the course of the principal events, but going his own independent way in arranging the subject-matter as well as in many minor points. The «Sowdan» differs from the poem of «Syr Ferumbras» in two principal points: (1) In being an original work, not in the conception, but in the treatment of the subject-matter, whereas the Ashmole «Ferumbras» is little more than a mere translation. [p-xxxiv] (2) In representing, in its first portion, the first part of the old «Balan» romance, whereas «Syr Ferumbras» contains only the second. But as that second part of the old «Balan» romance appears to be considerably modified and greatly amplified in the Ashmole «Ferumbras», so the first part of the «Sowdan» contains a likewise modified, but much shortened, narration of the first part of the old «Balan» poem, so that the «Sowdan» has arrived to become quite a different work from the original «Balan» or «Fierabras» romance, and that a reconstruction of the contents of that old poem would be impossible from the «Sowdan». LANGUAGE AND SUMMARY OF GRAMMATICAL FORMS. As regards the language of the «Sowdan», the first point is the dialect. Looking at the plurals of the present indicative in «-en» or «-n», we at once detect the Midland peculiarities of the poem. Thus we find, l. 1331, «gone» rhyming with «one», l. 1010, «goon» : «camalyon», l. 506, «gone» : «than», l. 1762, «lyven» : «gyfen», l. 1816, «byleven» : «even».