and Gawain proceeds to say, 'This knight with the red sleeve is not he whom I thought, no one ever saw such valour by one of the "Kinder van Scaerloet."' Arthur asks what knight he may be. D. L. makes Gawain say simply he does not know, 'but he is certainly a good knight'; while 1533 goes on to add 'if Lancelot had not been left at Kamalot he would have said that this was he.' This does not at all agree with S.
Both 1533 and D. L. agree against S. in saying Lancelot's wounds will take six (not seven) weeks to heal.
When Gawain and Gaheriet follow Lancelot, S. says they meet a wounded knight; in 1533 the knight is dead. D. L. omits the incident.
When Gawain returns to Arthur, S. represents the king as saying 'it was not the first time he took trouble without results, nor will it be the last.' 1533 and D. L. here add 'through that knight,' which is evidently correct.
S. simply says the second tourney is fixed at Tanebor, 'du lundi dapres en ung moys'; whereas the other versions carefully specify the wherabouts of this place, 'dat een casteel es, Staende in den inganc van Nortgales.' D. L. spells it 'Caneborch.'
Again, according to S., Lancelot, unable to go to the tourney, sends greeting to the queen and Gawain, 'from the knight who wore the red sleeve'; whereas D. L. and 1533 say 'the knight who won the tournament at Winchester' and make no mention of the sleeve, which, considering the relations between Lancelot and Guinevere, seems to me the better version. Neither do these mention that Guinevere tries to persuade Bohort to return to Camelot.
When Gawain comes to Escalot S. represents him as admiring the maiden's beauty and envying the knight 'with the red sleeve.' 1533 says, more correctly, 'the knight who wins her love'; he has not yet learned to whom the sleeve belonged.
In the account of what happens after Gawain's return to court, and Guinevere's learning the truth, all the versions agree on the whole, and it is noticeable that M., though making Bohort a more energetic defender of his cousin's good faith, yet correctly reproduces all the main features of incident and speech. I think any one comparing his version closely with two or three others can hardly fail to come to the conclusion that it is the prose Lancelot and no other account he is reproducing.
According to S. Lancelot's kinsmen only remain for a week at court; according to 1533 and D. L. it is 'that week and the next.'
When they leave the court on the second occasion after the tournament of Tanebor, neither D. L. nor 1533 say (as S. does) that the queen tries to persuade Bohort to remain, though they agree in making her regret his departure.