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. p. 183, he is the only one of Gawain's brothers mentioned in this poem. In Malory, we find _Gareth_ called 'Beau-mains,' and it is possible that the two are identical. Beaucorps is evidently much younger than Gawain, and Gareth was the youngest of King Lot's sons.
Page 24, line 679--'_Lahfilirost_.' This seems to be a misunderstanding for '_Le fils du Rost_,' and may be classed with the misinterpretations of a French source.
Page 25, line 700--'_Frau Minne_.' The word _Minne_ is etymologically derivable from a root 'man,' and is connected with the Latin _mens_, English 'mind' (cf. 'to have a mind to.') The original signification was that of tender care, or thought for; in Old High German it has already taken the meaning of love in its passionate aspects; finally, in Middle High German (the original language of the _Parzival_), it has become the standing expression for love betwixt man and woman. We have it in various forms as a verb, _Minnen_; as an adjective, _Minniglich_. The personification of the passion of Love as 'Frau Minne' is the work of the courtly poets of the twelfth century, and seems rather to have been derived from classical analogy than to be due to a reminiscence of an early German goddess of Love. Also, with Wolfram and his contemporaries, 'Frau Minne' must be regarded less as the personification of Love in the abstract than as the embodiment of the special love-ideal of the day. This new ideal had its rise, and assumed definite shape in twelfth century France, from whence it spread throughout the knightly society of Christendom, finding its fullest literary expression in the Arthurian romances. The historic causes which led to what was at the time an entirely novel mode of considering the relations between the sexes, and the true nature and ethical import of the chivalric conception of that relation will be briefly discussed in an Appendix to vol. II. The significance of the term is fully apparent from such passages as the present, also cf. Book VI . pp. 161, 163, 165, 171; VII. 208, 224; XII. etc.--[A. N.]
Page 27, line 768.--'_Morhold_,' also in