Book II

. p. 47. Similes borrowed from games of chance are not unusual in this poem.

Page 141, line 397--'_A woman's voice make moan_.' This meeting with the maiden _after_ the visit to the Grail Castle is in most versions the only one. In Chrêtien she now tells the hero his name which he learns or guesses for the first time. It was not improbably this incident which led either Wolfram, or his source, to place a first meeting earlier in the story while still retaining one in the original position. Wolfram, with characteristic love for detail, follows up the history of Siguné far more fully than other writers of the cycle.

Page 142, line 427--'_Monsalväsch_.' Probably 'Mont Sauvage,' in allusion to its wild and lonely position. A full account of the Grail and its keepers is given in Book IX . pp. 270, 271.

Page 143, line 463--'_Lunete_.' A character in Hartmann's _Iwein_, from which the episode is quoted. Cf. Book IX . p. 252, and opening of Book XII .

Page 144, line 475--'_Trebuchet_.' This name is also given in Chrêtien; he is alluded to again p. 147, and in