[52] Curiously enough this very text here prints Urban as the name of the Maimed King; Urban is the antagonist of Lambar, the father of the Maimed King in the original draft of the Queste, and his mention in this place in the 1488 text seems due to a misprint. In the episode there is a direct conflict of testimony between the first and second drafts, Lambar slaving Urlain in the former, Urlain Lambar in the latter.
[53] This account agrees with that of the second draft of the Queste, in which Urlain slays Lambar.
[54] Only one beholder of the Quest is alluded to, although in the Queste, from which the Grand St. Graal drew its account, three behold the wonders of the Grail.
[55] This, of course, belongs to the second of the two accounts we have found in the poem respecting the Promised Knight, the one which makes him the grandson and not the son merely of Brons.
[56] The object of the Quest according to Heinrich von dem Türlin will be found dealt with in [Chapter VII].
[57] This is one of a remarkable series of points of contact between Gerbert and Wolfram von Eschenbach.
[58] It almost looks as if the author of C were following here a version in which the hero only has to go once to the Grail Castle; nothing is said about Perceval’s first unsuccessful visit, and Merlin addresses Perceval as if he were telling him for the first time about matters concerning which he must be already fully instructed.
[59] It is remarkable, considering the scanty material at his disposal, how accurate Schulz’ analysis is, and how correct much of his argumentation.
[60] Wagner has admirably utilised this hint of Simrock’s in his Parsifal, when his Kundry (the loathly damsel of Chrestien and the Mabinogi) is Herodias. Cf. infra, [Ch. X].
[61] Excepting, of course, the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century Paris imprints, which represented as a rule, however, the latest and most interpolated forms, and Mons. Fr. Michel’s edition of Borron’s poem.