BOOK V

TRADITIONAL EVENTS

Hero meets with the Fisher King; Chrêtien and continuators: visits the Grail Castle, sees Peredur; Perceval; Perceval li the Grail, lance, etc., but asks Gallois. (Sir Percyvelle omits no question, and is therefore everything connected with the reproached by maiden with dead Grail.) knight.

(The reader will find all this part of the legend, the varying forms of the visit to the Grail Castle, the Fisher King, the Grail, etc., fully discussed in Mr. Alfred Nutt's _Studies on the Legend of the Holy Grail_.)

Page 131, line 58--'_Abenberg's field_.' Castle and town of Abenberg, in the neighbourhood of Eschenbach.

Page 131, line 75--'_Repanse de Schoie_.' This name appears to signify 'Thought of joy.' The Grail maidens are not named in other versions.

Page 132, line 87--'_Then one to the host would call him_.' This was evidently the Court Jester, always a privileged person.

Page 132, lines 109, 110--'_Lignum Aloe_.' Bartsch holds this to be a mistake of the poet, who has misunderstood the old French word _Aloer_. Chrêtien has simply _seces boises_. 'Wildberg' was the home of the poet, who is here making allusion to his poverty, as in