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Book II

. p. 46 and note. Annora is the same name as Eleanor.

Page 200, line 168--'_Lisavander_.' The French has several variations of this name, Teudaves, Travezdates, Trahedavet.

Page 205, line 318, and p. 219, line 781--'_A charger the king bestrode_.' This is an allusion to the captivity of Queen Guinevere and her rescue by Lancelot. Kay was among her would-be liberators, and was smitten by Meljakanz: 'enbor ûs dem satele hin, daz in ein ast der helm gevienc, und bi der gurgelen hienc.' This incident is related in Hartmann's _Iwein_; but the subsequent freeing of the queen by Lancelot, referred to on p. 219, is taken from Chrêtien's _Chevalier de la Charrette_. The adventure is again alluded to in