Book I

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Page 139, line 325--'_The garden of Paradise_.' This is one of the allusions which seem to connect the Grail in Wolfram's version with an Oriental source, cf. p. 135.

Page 141, line 371--'_A hidden hand drew the rope taut_.' Chrêtien has the incident of the drawbridge rising, but in no other version are the reproaches addressed to the hero immediately on his leaving the castle, they are invariably put into the mouth of the maiden with the dead knight. In the _Perceval_ the maiden's words, 'The Lord hates thee,' recall Wolfram's _Ihr sult varen der sunnen has_, which Bartsch says is an ancient formula of declaring a person accurst, and unworthy of the light of day.

Page 141, line 381--'_Doubled the throw of sorrow_.' Cf. Book III . p. 100;